Top "Ieee-754" questions

IEEE 754 is the most common & widely used floating-point standard, notably the single-precision binary32 aka float and double-precision binary64 aka double formats.

Float and double datatype in Java

The float data type is a single-precision 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point and the double data type is a double-precision 64-bit …

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biggest integer that can be stored in a double

What is the biggest "no-floating" integer that can be stored in an IEEE 754 double type without losing precision ?

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Formatting doubles for output in C#

Running a quick experiment related to Is double Multiplication Broken in .NET? and reading a couple of articles on C# …

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Double precision - decimal places

From what I have read, a value of data type double has an approximate precision of 15 decimal places. However, when …

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Ranges of floating point datatype in C?

I am reading a C book, talking about ranges of floating point, the author gave the table: Type Smallest Positive …

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How do I convert from a decimal number to IEEE 754 single-precision floating-point format?

How would I go about manually changing a decimal (base 10) number into IEEE 754 single-precision floating-point format? I understand that there …

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What range of numbers can be represented in a 16-, 32- and 64-bit IEEE-754 systems?

I know a little bit about how floating-point numbers are represented, but not enough, I'm afraid. The general question is: …

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32-bit to 16-bit Floating Point Conversion

I need a cross-platform library/algorithm that will convert between 32-bit and 16-bit floating point numbers. I don't need to …

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The Double Byte Size in 32 bit and 64 bit OS

Is there a difference in double size when I run my app on 32 and 64 bit environment? If I am not …

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What is the rationale for all comparisons returning false for IEEE754 NaN values?

Why do comparisons of NaN values behave differently from all other values? That is, all comparisons with the operators ==, <=, &…

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