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Author poq
Recipients Matthew.Johnson, docs@python, eli.bendersky, joenapnap, petri.lehtinen, poq
Date 2012-03-01.18:08:44
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It is generally considered more correct to write "floating-point number", because "floating-point" is a compound adjective here. The hyphen clarifies that it should be parsed as ((floating point) number) instead of (floating (point number)).

However, in practice "floating point number" is also commonly used. I completely agree with Eli that this is just nitpicking, and not a productive use of Python developers' time.
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