Thursday, June 23, 2011

Single Precision and Double Precision Floating Number

  • Single precision floating number has 1 signed bit, exponent width 8 bits, fraction 23 bits, significand 24 bits. The value is  (from Wikipedia)
  • Double precision floating number has 1 signed bit, exponent width 11 bits, fraction 52 bits, significand 53 bits.The value is (from Wikipedia)

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