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  2. Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Here the 'IEEE 754 double value' resulting of the 15 bit figure is 3.330560653658221E-15, which is rounded by Excel for the 'user interface' to 15 digits 3.33056065365822E-15, and then displayed with 30 decimals digits gets one 'fake zero' added, thus the 'binary' and 'decimal' values in the sample are identical only in display, the values ...

  3. Decimal data type - Wikipedia

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    A decimal data type could be implemented as either a floating-point number or as a fixed-point number. In the fixed-point case, the denominator would be set to a fixed power of ten. In the floating-point case, a variable exponent would represent the power of ten to which the mantissa of the number is multiplied.

  4. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    A radix point is most often used in decimal (base 10) notation, when it is more commonly called the decimal point (the prefix deci-implying base 10). In English-speaking countries , the decimal point is usually a small dot (.) placed either on the baseline, or halfway between the baseline and the top of the digits ( · ) [ 25 ] [ a ] In many ...

  5. Round-off error - Wikipedia

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    When there is a tie, the floating-point number whose last stored digit is even (also, the last digit, in binary form, is equal to 0) is used. For IEEE standard where the base β {\displaystyle \beta } is 2 {\displaystyle 2} , this means when there is a tie it is rounded so that the last digit is equal to 0 {\displaystyle 0} .

  6. Python (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    There are two types of divisions in Python: floor division (or integer division) // and floating-point / division. [103] Python uses the ** operator for exponentiation. Python uses the + operator for string concatenation. Python uses the * operator for duplicating a string a specified number of times.

  7. Floating-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    If the radix point is not specified, then the string implicitly represents an integer and the unstated radix point would be off the right-hand end of the string, next to the least significant digit. In fixed-point systems, a position in the string is specified for the radix point. So a fixed-point scheme might use a string of 8 decimal digits ...

  8. Arbitrary-precision arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    The 1620 was a decimal-digit machine which used discrete transistors, yet it had hardware (that used lookup tables) to perform integer arithmetic on digit strings of a length that could be from two to whatever memory was available. For floating-point arithmetic, the mantissa was restricted to a hundred digits or fewer, and the exponent was ...

  9. Rounding - Wikipedia

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    The problem was caused by the index being recalculated thousands of times daily, and always being truncated (rounded down) to 3 decimal places, in such a way that the rounding errors accumulated. Recalculating the index for the same period using rounding to the nearest thousandth rather than truncation corrected the index value from 524.811 up ...