dotted decimal
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
dotted decimal (countable and uncountable, plural dotted decimals)
- (Internet) A method of writing IP addresses where the value of each byte is given as a decimal number, and each byte separated by a dot.
- 127.0.0.1 is the dotted decimal representation of the binary value 01111111000000000000000000000001, which is the address your computer uses to refer to itself.
Usage notes[edit]
This format can be used to represent any number. It is the defacto-standard human-readable representation for IPv4 addresses, but is also used in software-release version numbering (see dot release), library classification, and medicine.