Single-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP32 or float32) is a computer number format, usually occupying 32 bits in computer memory; it...

quadruple precision (or quad precision) is a binary floating-point–based computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) with precision at least...

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)...

Double-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory;...

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...

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...

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...

Significant figures Single-precision floating-point format Standard Apple Numerics Environment (SANE) The significand of a floating-point number is also called...

Half-precision floating-point format Single-precision floating-point format Double-precision floating-point format Quadruple-precision floating-point format...

Half-precision floating-point format Single-precision floating-point format Double-precision floating-point format IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic...

Extended precision refers to floating-point number formats that provide greater precision than the basic floating-point formats. Extended-precision formats support...

several specific formats, including MXFP8, MXFP6, MXFP4, and MXINT8. These formats support various precision levels: MXFP8: 8-bit floating-point with two variants...

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...

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...

decimal floating-point computer numbering format that occupies 4 bytes (32 bits) in computer memory. Like the binary16 and binary32 formats, decimal32...

which all integer values can exactly be represented in IEEE single precision floating-point format. Mathematics: There are 19,958,400 possible combinations...

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|...

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...

different measures of precision, for example, the TOP500 supercomputer list ranks computers by 64-bit (double-precision floating-point format) operations per...

Decimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic refers to both a representation and operations on decimal floating-point numbers. Working directly with decimal...

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...

provides support for converting between half-precision and standard IEEE single-precision floating-point formats. The CVT16 instruction set, announced by...

decimal floating-point computer number format that occupies 8 bytes (64 bits) in computer memory. Decimal64 is a decimal floating-point format, formally...

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...

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...

file format and the AIFF file format support floating-point representations. Unlike integers, whose bit pattern is a single series of bits, a floating-point...

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...

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...

Machine epsilon or machine precision is an upper bound on the relative approximation error due to rounding in floating point number systems. This value...

In computing, minifloats are floating-point values represented with very few bits. This reduced precision makes them ill-suited for general-purpose numerical...