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  2. Guard digit - Wikipedia

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    After padding the second number (i.e., ) with two s, the bit after is the guard digit, and the bit after is the round digit. The result after rounding is 2.37 {\displaystyle 2.37} as opposed to 2.36 {\displaystyle 2.36} , without the extra bits (guard and round bits), i.e., by considering only 0.02 + 2.34 = 2.36 {\displaystyle 0.02+2.34=2.36} .

  3. Round-off error - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a roundoff error, [1] also called rounding error, [2] is the difference between the result produced by a given algorithm using exact arithmetic and the result produced by the same algorithm using finite-precision, rounded arithmetic. [3]

  4. List of arbitrary-precision arithmetic software - Wikipedia

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    Python: the built-in int (3.x) / long (2.x) integer type is of arbitrary precision. The Decimal class in the standard library module decimal has user definable precision and limited mathematical operations (exponentiation, square root, etc. but no trigonometric functions).

  5. Extended precision - Wikipedia

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    The use of decimal when talking about binary is unfortunate because most decimal fractions are recurring sequences in binary just as ⁠ 2 / 3 ⁠ is in decimal. Thus, a value such as 10.15, is represented in binary as equivalent to 10.1499996185 etc. in decimal for REAL*4 but 10.15000000000000035527 etc. in REAL*8: inter-conversion will ...

  6. Decimal data type - Wikipedia

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    C# has a built-in data type decimal consisting of 128 bits resulting in 28–29 significant digits. It has an approximate range of ±1.0 × 10 −28 to ±7.9228 × 10 28. [1] Starting with Python 2.4, Python's standard library includes a Decimal class in the module decimal. [2] Ruby's standard library includes a BigDecimal class in the module ...

  7. 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.

  8. Decimal floating point - Wikipedia

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    For example, while a fixed-point representation that allocates 8 decimal digits and 2 decimal places can represent the numbers 123456.78, 8765.43, 123.00, and so on, a floating-point representation with 8 decimal digits could also represent 1.2345678, 1234567.8, 0.000012345678, 12345678000000000, and so on.

  9. Single-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia

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    Integers between 2 24 =16777216 and 2 25 =33554432 round to a multiple of 2 (even number) Integers between 2 25 and 2 26 round to a multiple of 4... Integers between 2 n and 2 n+1 round to a multiple of 2 n-23... Integers between 2 127 and 2 128 round to a multiple of 2 104; Integers greater than or equal to 2 128 are rounded to "infinity".