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  2. Significant figures - Wikipedia

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    Spurious digits that arise from calculations resulting in a higher precision than the original data or a measurement reported with greater precision than the instrument's resolution. A zero after a decimal (e.g., 1.0) is significant, and care should be used when appending such a decimal of zero.

  3. Decimal degrees - Wikipedia

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    Degree precision versus length decimal places decimal degrees DMS Object that can be unambiguously recognized at this scale N/S or E/W at equator E/W at 23N/S E/W at 45N/S E/W at 67N/S 0 1.0: 1° 00′ 0″ country or large region: 111 km: 102 km: 78.7 km: 43.5 km 1 0.1: 0° 06′ 0″ large city or district: 11.1 km: 10.2 km: 7.87 km: 4.35 km ...

  4. Fixed-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    A fixed-point representation of a fractional number is essentially an integer that is to be implicitly multiplied by a fixed scaling factor. For example, the value 1.23 can be stored in a variable as the integer value 1230 with implicit scaling factor of 1/1000 (meaning that the last 3 decimal digits are implicitly assumed to be a decimal fraction), and the value 1 230 000 can be represented ...

  5. Accuracy and precision - Wikipedia

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    Accuracy is also used as a statistical measure of how well a binary classification test correctly identifies or excludes a condition. That is, the accuracy is the proportion of correct predictions (both true positives and true negatives) among the total number of cases examined. [10]

  6. Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Excel maintains 15 figures in its numbers, but they are not always accurate; mathematically, the bottom line should be the same as the top line, in 'fp-math' the step '1 + 1/9000' leads to a rounding up as the first bit of the 14 bit tail '10111000110010' of the mantissa falling off the table when adding 1 is a '1', this up-rounding is not undone when subtracting the 1 again, since there is no ...

  7. Single-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia

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    All integers with seven or fewer decimal digits, and any 2 n for a whole number −149 ≤ n ≤ 127, can be converted exactly into an IEEE 754 single-precision floating-point value. In the IEEE 754 standard , the 32-bit base-2 format is officially referred to as binary32 ; it was called single in IEEE 754-1985 .

  8. Precision (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    This is usually measured in bits, but sometimes in decimal digits. It is related to precision in mathematics, which describes the number of digits that are used to express a value. Some of the standardized precision formats are Half-precision floating-point format; Single-precision floating-point format; Double-precision floating-point format

  9. Scale factor (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    The example above illustrates how certain scale factors can cause unnecessary precision loss or rounding error, highlighting the importance of choosing the right scale factor. Using the scale factor of 1 ⁄ 11 and converting to binary representations, the following values are obtained: