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nearest value to 1/3 0 01110 1111111111: 3bff: 2 −1 × (1 + 1023 / 1024 ) ≈ 0.99951172: largest number less than one 0 01111 0000000000: 3c00: 2 0 × (1 + 0 / 1024 ) = 1: one 0 01111 0000000001: 3c01: 2 0 × (1 + 1 / 1024 ) ≈ 1.00097656: smallest number larger than one 0 11110 1111111111: 7bff: 2 15 × (1 + 1023 / ...
The base determines the fractions that can be represented; for instance, 1/5 cannot be represented exactly as a floating-point number using a binary base, but 1/5 can be represented exactly using a decimal base (0.2, or 2 × 10 −1). However, 1/3 cannot be represented exactly by either binary (0.010101...) or decimal (0.333...), but in base 3 ...
By default, 1/3 rounds up, instead of down like double precision, because of the even number of bits in the significand. The bits of 1/3 beyond the rounding point are 1010... which is more than 1/2 of a unit in the last place. Encodings of qNaN and sNaN are not specified in IEEE 754 and implemented differently on different processors.
Round to nearest, ties to even – rounds to the nearest value; if the number falls midway, it is rounded to the nearest value with an even least significant digit. Round to nearest, ties away from zero (or ties to away ) – rounds to the nearest value; if the number falls midway, it is rounded to the nearest value above (for positive numbers ...
For example, 1.6 would be rounded to 1 with probability 0.4 and to 2 with probability 0.6. Stochastic rounding can be accurate in a way that a rounding function can never be. For example, suppose one started with 0 and added 0.3 to that one hundred times while rounding the running total between every addition.
Thus only 112 bits of the significand appear in the memory format, but the total precision is 113 bits (approximately 34 decimal digits: log 10 (2 113) ≈ 34.016) for normal values; subnormals have gracefully degrading precision down to 1 bit for the smallest non-zero value. The bits are laid out as:
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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.