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What do you mean by double precision floating point number ?

19th Aug 2019, 4:05 AM
Anurag Singh
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Therefore use double precision when you need greater accuracy.
19th Aug 2019, 4:41 AM
Sonic
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19th Aug 2019, 5:16 AM
Danijel Ivanović
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A single-precision floating-point formate uses 32 bit of memory, whereas a double-precision floating-point formate uses 64 bit of memory. The latter allows an approximate 16 decimal digit precision.
19th Aug 2019, 4:27 AM
Michael
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