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  2. Double-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia

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    Exponents range from −1022 to +1023 because exponents of −1023 (all 0s) and +1024 (all 1s) are reserved for special numbers. The 53-bit significand precision gives from 15 to 17 significant decimal digits precision (2 −53 ≈ 1.11 × 10 −16). If a decimal string with at most 15 significant digits is converted to the IEEE 754 double ...

  3. Floating-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    Since 2 10 = 1024, the complete range of the positive normal floating-point numbers in this format is from 2 −1022 ≈ 2 × 10 −308 to approximately 2 1024 ≈ 2 × 10 308. The number of normal floating-point numbers in a system (B, P, L, U) where B is the base of the system, P is the precision of the significand (in base B),

  4. Machine epsilon - Wikipedia

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    This alternative definition is significantly more widespread: machine epsilon is the difference between 1 and the next larger floating point number.This definition is used in language constants in Ada, C, C++, Fortran, MATLAB, Mathematica, Octave, Pascal, Python and Rust etc., and defined in textbooks like «Numerical Recipes» by Press et al.

  5. Decimal floating point - Wikipedia

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    Like the binary floating-point formats, the number is divided into a sign, an exponent, and a significand. Unlike binary floating-point, numbers are not necessarily normalized; values with few significant digits have multiple possible representations: 1×10 2 =0.1×10 3 =0.01×10 4, etc. When the significand is zero, the exponent can be any ...

  6. 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

  7. Unit in the last place - Wikipedia

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    In computer science and numerical analysis, unit in the last place or unit of least precision (ulp) is the spacing between two consecutive floating-point numbers, i.e., the value the least significant digit (rightmost digit) represents if it is 1. It is used as a measure of accuracy in numeric calculations. [1]

  8. IEEE 754-1985 - Wikipedia

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    As an 8-bit exponent was not wide enough for some operations desired for double-precision numbers, e.g. to store the product of two 32-bit numbers, [20] both Kahan's proposal and a counter-proposal by DEC therefore used 11 bits, like the time-tested 60-bit floating-point format of the CDC 6600 from 1965.

  9. Primitive data type - Wikipedia

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    2.1 Java. 2.2 C basic types. ... Because floating-point numbers have limited precision, ... This is two floating-point numbers, a real part and an imaginary part. ...