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What are Double Precision Floating Point Numbers?

24th Sep 2016, 6:43 PM
Esmatullah Sayeedy
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Not really ariel, it has more to do with how many bytes thr number will occupy in memory. A single precision floating point number takes 4 bytes of space in memory. This is enough for normal operations where decimals are needed. But, for operations where a lot more precision is needed, like scientific calculations, 4 bytes is not enough. The double precision floating point number takes 8 bytes of space. This allows us to store longer and more precise numbers. That's basically it.
28th Sep 2016, 11:50 PM
Alejandro Aristizabal
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double precision Floating Point Numbers have a decimal point, known as floating point. How many digits could be used, before and after the floating point, depends on op- system and memory !
19th Feb 2017, 2:33 PM
Mostafa Sasan
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Two digit decimal numbers.
19th Dec 2016, 6:00 PM
Theprogrammers
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Double precison floating numbers are numbers that may have a dot "." in them and exactly two digits after the dot. for example 10.72, 2.01, 82.31, 8.00
26th Sep 2016, 2:54 AM
ariel ferdman
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Two decimal places after decimal eg. 55.50, 33.00, 45.65 etc these a precised to two decimal points.
3rd Oct 2016, 11:21 AM
om prakash
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it is a number with two decimal places e.g 20.65
21st Oct 2016, 10:37 AM
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