copolymer: a polymer consisting of two or more different monomers
polymer: a naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers
floating-point notation: a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix; in the floating-point representation system, 0.0012 is represented as 0.12-2 where -2 is the exponent