double precision in English

noun
1
the use of twice the usual number of bits to represent a number, giving greater arithmetic accuracy.
My binary math is a little rusty, but that limit seems to correspond to 32-bit double precision real arithmetic.

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1. Beledgered What precision to double precision number itself

2. Abs(Double) Returns the Absolute value of a double-precision floating-point number

3. A double-precision floating-point number is accurate to approximately 15 decimal places.

4. A Binary format that reads an 8-byte IEEE double-precision floating point value

5. Many languages have both a single precision (often called "float") and a double precision type.

6. Data can be written in single-precision (32 Bit), double-precision (64 Bit) or quadruple-precision (128 Bit).

7. Regan speculated that this particular number is troublesome because it is the "largest subnormal double-precision floating-point number."

8. There are three types of real values, denoted by their specifiers: single precision (float), double precision (double), and double extended precision (long double).

9. Floating-point values in Python are always done in double precision; hence, Python float types correspond to doubles in a C-like language.

10. Prism stores the P values in double precision (about 12 digits of precision), and uses that value (not the value you see displayed) when it decides how many Asterisks to show

11. (1) The double data type corresponds to IEEE double-precision 64-bit floating point type, the decimal represents arbitrary precision decimal numbers, the string data type represents character strings in XML.

12. Don't get me started on the fact that I can't even have an array of bytes, but only massive Bloatsome double-precision floats instead (or doubles, or the choice of exactly one (1) numeric datatype that Lua is compiled with)