ulp

名词 n. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /ʌlp/    美 /ʌlp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The value that the least significant digit of a floating-point number represents, used as a measure of accuracy in numeric calculations.
    — The basic concept of two vectors "agreeing to k ulps" (units in the last place) of each entry or of the largest entry allows us to express relationships among computed values and solutions at perturbed data.
感叹词 intj.
  1. The sound of a person gulping in fear.
    — I sent her a text asking as nonchalantly as possible whether cows ever go for you. [...] The answer I got was, 'Occasionally they do, and they can be bloody scary.' Ulp.

词形变化

ulps plural

词源

词源 1
Imitative, or possibly a variant of gulp.
词源 2
Abbreviation of unit in the last place or unit of least precision, coined in 1960 by Canadian mathematician and computer scientist William Kahan (born 1933).
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