• 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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  • by using a floating radix point. This format is a shortened (16-bit) version of the 32-bit IEEE 754 single-precision floating-point format (binary32)...
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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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  • In computing, half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern...
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  • Double-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory;...
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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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  • Hexadecimal floating point (now called HFP by IBM) is a format for encoding floating-point numbers first introduced on the IBM System/360 computers, and...
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    Significant figures Single-precision floating-point format Standard Apple Numerics Environment (SANE) The significand of a floating-point number is also called...
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  • Half-precision floating-point format Single-precision floating-point format Double-precision floating-point format Quadruple-precision floating-point format...
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  • Extended precision refers to floating-point number formats that provide greater precision than the basic floating-point formats. Extended-precision formats support...
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  • Half-precision floating-point format Single-precision floating-point format Double-precision floating-point format IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic...
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  • several specific formats, including MXFP8, MXFP6, MXFP4, and MXINT8. These formats support various precision levels: MXFP8: 8-bit floating-point with two variants...
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  • 64-bit, double-precision format as a separate data type from 32-bit, single-precision. Microsoft used the same floating-point formats in their implementation...
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  • property of the single- and double-precision formats is that their encoding allows one to easily sort them without using floating-point hardware, as if...
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  • decimal floating-point computer numbering format that occupies 4 bytes (32 bits) in computer memory. Like the binary16 and binary32 formats, decimal32...
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  • Decimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic refers to both a representation and operations on decimal floating-point numbers. Working directly with decimal...
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  • different measures of precision, for example, the TOP500 supercomputer list ranks computers by 64-bit (double-precision floating-point format) operations per...
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  • absolute value is greater than 224 (for binary single-precision IEEE floating point) or of 253 (for double-precision). Overflow or underflow may occur if |S|...
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  • delimited the value. Numbers can be stored in a fixed-point format, or in a floating-point format as a significand multiplied by an arbitrary exponent...
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  • In computing, decimal128 is a decimal floating-point number format that occupies 128 bits in memory. Formally introduced in IEEE 754-2008, it is intended...
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  • provides support for converting between half-precision and standard IEEE single-precision floating-point formats. The CVT16 instruction set, announced by...
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  • programming languages, long double refers to a floating-point data type that is often more precise than double precision though the language standard only requires...
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  • allows the syntax Qsnnn, if the exponent field is within the T_floating double precision range. […] A REAL*16 constant is a basic real constant or an integer...
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  • was the most widely used format for floating-point computation. It was implemented in software, in the form of floating-point libraries, and in hardware...
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  • Minifloat (category Floating point types)
    In computing, minifloats are floating-point values represented with very few bits. This reduced precision makes them ill-suited for general-purpose numerical...
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    memory read and writes is reduced. Hopper features improved single-precision floating-point format (FP32) throughput with twice as many FP32 operations per...
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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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  • slower than fixed-length format floating-point instructions. When high performance is not a requirement, but high precision is, variable length arithmetic...
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  • decimal floating-point computer number format that occupies 8 bytes (64 bits) in computer memory. Decimal64 is a decimal floating-point format, formally...
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  • ICD-10 code F32/T32 classification in paralympic sports Single-precision floating-point format, as it's known by its type annotation f32 in Rust. This disambiguation...
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