• Extended precision refers to floating-point number formats that provide greater precision than the basic floating-point formats. Extended-precision formats...
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  • by using a floating radix point. Double precision may be chosen when the range or precision of single precision would be insufficient. In the IEEE 754...
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  • In computing, half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in...
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  • extended and extendable precision formats, which provide greater precision than the basic formats. An extended precision format extends a basic format...
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  • request or simulated by OS software). The extended-precision fraction field is wider, and the extended-precision number is stored as two double words (16...
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  • quadruple precision (or quad precision) is a binary floating-point–based computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) with precision at least...
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  • architecture, most C compilers implement long double as the 80-bit extended precision type supported by x86 hardware (generally stored as 12 or 16 bytes...
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    its significand has a precision of 53 bits (about 16 decimal digits). Double extended, also ambiguously called "extended precision" format. This is a binary...
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  • can also be reduced). Approximate computing Arbitrary-precision arithmetic Extended precision Granularity IEEE754 (IEEE floating point standard) Integer...
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  • science, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, also called bignum arithmetic, multiple-precision arithmetic, or sometimes infinite-precision arithmetic, indicates...
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  • Single-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP32 or float32) is a computer number format, usually occupying 32 bits in computer memory; it...
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    precision" format and a 40-bit "extended precision" format. Standard precision format contains a 24-bit two's complement significand while extended precision...
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    System/370 Extended Facility" (PDF). IBM System/370 Extended FacilitY (PDF). IBM. January 1978. p. 4. GA22-7072-0. The IBM System/370 extended facility...
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  • (also called mantissa, or precision bits) The total 19-bit format fits within a double word (32 bits), and while it lacks precision compared with a normal...
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  • decimal interchange formats; _FloatNx for binary extended formats; _DecimalNx for decimal extended formats. Structures aggregate the storage of multiple...
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  • In computing, octuple precision is a binary floating-point-based computer number format that occupies 32 bytes (256 bits) in computer memory. This 256-bit...
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  • the memory. Inside of the FPU, the values are stored as normal x87 extended-precision floats. Unlike the integer-facing versions, the two instructions remain...
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  • double extended precision variables, compared with the double and single precision formats implemented in SSE2: the rounding of extended precision intermediate...
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  • (64-bit, used in Java's double) precision. Some hardware also provides extended precision formats that provide higher precision and/or a larger exponent range...
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  • Machine epsilon or machine precision is an upper bound on the relative approximation error due to rounding in floating point number systems. This value...
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    demonstrates the extended precision abilities of J: n=: 50 NB. set n as the number of digits required <.@o. 10x^n NB. extended precision 10 to the nth *...
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    The Precision Strike Missile (PrSM; PRI-zim) is a short-range ballistic missile developed by the United States Army to replace the MGM-140 ATACMS. The...
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  • The DC Extended Universe (DCEU) is a shared universe centered on a group of film franchises based on characters by DC Comics and distributed by Warner...
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  • m1m2m3...mp−2mp−1 (where m represents a significant digit, and p is the precision) with non-zero m0. Notice that for a binary radix, the leading binary...
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  • format is a shortened (16-bit) version of the 32-bit IEEE 754 single-precision floating-point format (binary32) with the intent of accelerating machine...
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  • Mixed-precision arithmetic is a form of floating-point arithmetic that uses numbers with varying widths in a single operation. A common usage of mixed-precision...
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    "Prosthodontic Rehabilitation With Kennedy's Class I and Class II Using an Extended Precision Attachment: A Report of Two Cases". Cureus. doi:10.7759/cureus.43723...
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  • support arbitrary-precision arithmetic. Software that supports arbitrary precision computations: bc the POSIX arbitrary-precision arithmetic language...
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    single precision, double is defined as double precision, and long double is defined as IEEE 754 extended precision (e.g., Intel 80-bit double extended precision...
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  • limited that potential.) The x87 provides single-precision, double-precision and 80-bit double-extended precision binary floating-point arithmetic as per the...
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