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  2. Data type - Wikipedia

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    The standard type hierarchy of Python 3. In computer science and computer programming, a data type (or simply type) is a collection or grouping of data values, usually specified by a set of possible values, a set of allowed operations on these values, and/or a representation of these values as machine types. [1]

  3. Double-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia

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    Double-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide range of numeric values by using a floating radix point. Double precision may be chosen when the range or precision of single precision would be insufficient.

  4. Floating-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    The value distribution is similar to floating point, but the value-to-representation curve (i.e., the graph of the logarithm function) is smooth (except at 0). Conversely to floating-point arithmetic, in a logarithmic number system multiplication, division and exponentiation are simple to implement, but addition and subtraction are complex.

  5. Single-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia

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    A floating-point variable can represent a wider range of numbers than a fixed-point variable of the same bit width at the cost of precision. A signed 32-bit integer variable has a maximum value of 2 31 − 1 = 2,147,483,647, whereas an IEEE 754 32-bit base-2 floating-point variable has a maximum value of (2 − 2 −23) × 2 127 ≈ 3.4028235 ...

  6. Data structure alignment - Wikipedia

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    A float (four bytes) will be 4-byte aligned. A double (eight bytes) will be 8-byte aligned on Windows and 4-byte aligned on Linux (8-byte with -malign-double compile time option). A long long (eight bytes) will be 8-byte aligned on Windows and 4-byte aligned on Linux (8-byte with -malign-double compile time option).

  7. Pointer (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    This implementation uses a pointer to the first element in the list as a surrogate for the entire list. If a new value is added to the beginning of the list, head has to be changed to point to the new element. Since C arguments are always passed by value, using double indirection allows the insertion to be implemented correctly, and has the ...

  8. Hash function - Wikipedia

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    The value a is an appropriately chosen value that should be relatively prime to W; it should be large, [clarification needed] and its binary representation a random mix [clarification needed] of 1s and 0s. An important practical special case occurs when W = 2 w and M = 2 m are powers of 2 and w is the machine word size.

  9. List of Google April Fools' Day jokes - Wikipedia

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    Google announced [79] that Google Docs will have the capacity to upload anything, including physical objects like keys, remote controls, etc. The site [80] declared that one could use this to find items like keys using CTRL-F and send objects around the globe by "uploading" and "downloading" them, at the low price of $0.10 per kg.