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standardize [′stan·dər‚dīz]
(computer science)
To replace any given floating point representation of a number with its representation in standard form; that is, to adjust the exponent and fixed-point part so that the new fixed-point part lies within a prescribed standard range.


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However, quite often all this rulemaking does not result from the drive of the Eurocrats (who are a well-educated and energetic lot), but from lobbies in industry, in case of agriculture probably from traders and processors, who want some standardisation so that, for instance, when they buy herring for pickling or canning they do get proper herrings and not an ill-assorted lot of scrawny sprats.
 
 
 
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