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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. Change of base - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, change of base can mean any of several things: Changing numeral bases, such as converting from base 2 to base 10 . This is known as base conversion. The logarithmic change-of-base formula, one of the logarithmic identities used frequently in algebra and calculus.

  4. Binary number - Wikipedia

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    The base-2 numeral system is a positional notation with a radix of 2.Each digit is referred to as a bit, or binary digit.Because of its straightforward implementation in digital electronic circuitry using logic gates, the binary system is used by almost all modern computers and computer-based devices, as a preferred system of use, over various other human techniques of communication, because ...

  5. Megabyte - Wikipedia

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    The interpretation of using base 1024 originated as technical jargon for the byte multiples that needed to be expressed by the powers of 2 but lacked a convenient name. As 1024 (2 10 ) approximates 1000 (10 3 ), roughly corresponding to the SI prefix kilo- , it was a convenient term to denote the binary multiple.

  6. Power of two - Wikipedia

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    Visualization of powers of two from 1 to 1024 (2 0 to 2 10) as base-2 Dienes blocks. A power of two is a number of the form 2 n where n is an integer, that is, the result of exponentiation with number two as the base and integer n as the exponent.

  7. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    "A base is a natural number B whose powers (B multiplied by itself some number of times) are specially designated within a numerical system." [1]: 38 The term is not equivalent to radix, as it applies to all numerical notation systems (not just positional ones with a radix) and most systems of spoken numbers. [1]

  8. Binary prefix - Wikipedia

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    A binary prefix is a unit prefix that indicates a multiple of a unit of measurement by an integer power of two.The most commonly used binary prefixes are kibi (symbol Ki, meaning 2 10 = 1024), mebi (Mi, 2 20 = 1 048 576), and gibi (Gi, 2 30 = 1 073 741 824).

  9. 1024 (number) - Wikipedia

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    1024 is a power of two: 2 10 (2 to the tenth power). [1] It is the nearest power of two from decimal 1000 and senary 10000 6 (decimal 1296). It is the 64th quarter square. [2] [3] 1024 is the smallest number with exactly 11 divisors (but there are smaller numbers with more than 11 divisors; e.g., 60 has 12 divisors) (sequence A005179 in the OEIS).