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  2. Double-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia

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    With the 52 bits of the fraction (F) significand appearing in the memory format, the total precision is therefore 53 bits (approximately 16 decimal digits, 53 log 10 (2) ≈ 15.955). The bits are laid out as follows: The real value assumed by a given 64-bit double-precision datum with a given biased exponent and a 52-bit fraction is

  3. Round-off error - Wikipedia

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    Round-by-chop: The base-expansion of is truncated after the ()-th digit. This rounding rule is biased because it always moves the result toward zero. Round-to-nearest: () is set to the nearest floating-point number to . When there is a tie, the floating-point number whose last stored digit is even (also, the last digit, in binary form, is equal ...

  4. Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates - Wikipedia

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    As all coordinates link to the same PHP tool, they may also be found from the SQL format table of external links (enwiki-latest-externallinks.sql.gz, 725MB). This second method will however not include all available information about the coordinates, such as their position between the article body and the title area.

  5. Decimal floating point - Wikipedia

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    The otherwise binary Wang VS machine supported a 64-bit decimal floating-point format in 1977. [2] The Motorola 68881 supported a format with 17 digits of mantissa and 3 of exponent in 1984, with the floating-point support library for the Motorola 68040 processor providing a compatible 96-bit decimal floating-point storage format in 1990. [2]

  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. Rounding - Wikipedia

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    In the example from "Double rounding" section, rounding 9.46 to one decimal gives 9.4, which rounding to integer in turn gives 9. With binary arithmetic, this rounding is also called "round to odd" (not to be confused with "round half to odd"). For example, when rounding to 1/4 (0.01 in binary), x = 2.0 ⇒ result is 2 (10.00 in binary)

  8. 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} .

  9. Computer number format - Wikipedia

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    The representation has a limited precision. For example, only 15 decimal digits can be represented with a 64-bit real. If a very small floating-point number is added to a large one, the result is just the large one. The small number was too small to even show up in 15 or 16 digits of resolution, and the computer effectively discards it.