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  2. Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    The last two examples illustrate what happens if x is a rather small number. In the second from last example, x = 1.110111⋯111 × 2 −50 ; 15 bits altogether. The binary is replaced very crudely by a single power of 2 (in this example, 2 −49) and its decimal equivalent is used.

  3. SQL - Wikipedia

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    SQL was initially developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce after learning about the relational model from Edgar F. Codd [12] in the early 1970s. [13] This version, initially called SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language), was designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM's original quasirelational database management system, System R, which a group at IBM San ...

  4. Decimal data type - Wikipedia

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    Some programming languages (or compilers for them) provide a built-in (primitive) or library decimal data type to represent non-repeating decimal fractions like 0.3 and −1.17 without rounding, and to do arithmetic on them. Examples are the decimal.Decimal or num7.Num type of Python, and analogous types provided by other languages.

  5. Round-off error - Wikipedia

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    Example: the decimal number () = ¯) can be ... Machine addition consists of lining up the decimal points of the two numbers to be added, adding them, and then ...

  6. Rounding - Wikipedia

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    For example, rounding x = 2.1784 dollars to whole cents (i.e., to a multiple of 0.01) entails computing 2.1784 / 0.01 = 217.84, then rounding that to 218, and finally computing 218 × 0.01 = 2.18. When rounding to a predetermined number of significant digits , the increment m depends on the magnitude of the number to be rounded (or of the ...

  7. Decimal floating point - Wikipedia

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    A simple method to add floating-point numbers is to first represent them with the same exponent. In the example below, the second number is shifted right by 3 digits. We proceed with the usual addition method: The following example is decimal, which simply means the base is 10. 123456.7 = 1.234567 × 10 5 101.7654 = 1.017654 × 10 2 = 0. ...

  8. Symbolic Link (SYLK) - Wikipedia

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    one of the following 1-character formatting codes: D default C continuous cross-cell display E scientific exponentiation F fixed decimal point G general format $ leading $ and 2 decimal points * bar graph, one asterisk per unit (5 would be *****) n the number of digits. c2 one of the following 1-character alignment codes: D default C center G

  9. Single-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia

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    If a decimal string with at most 6 significant digits is converted to the IEEE 754 single-precision format, giving a normal number, and then converted back to a decimal string with the same number of digits, the final result should match the original string. If an IEEE 754 single-precision number is converted to a decimal string with at least 9 ...