Why is float called single precision floating point and double as double precision floating point?
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Jump to Postwhy is the sky blue? doubles have more precision than floats, and long doubles may or may not have more precision than doubles (compiler dependent).
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Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
why is the sky blue? doubles have more precision than floats, and long doubles may or may not have more precision than doubles (compiler dependent).
lisaroy1 0 Light Poster
It is not Compiler Dependent but the size for double is actually double than the float so the number of digits in the double can be more than the float.
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
I didn't say floats and doubles were compiler depedent. I said long doubles were. Some compilers support long doubles as twice the size as doubles while other compilers such as vc++ 2010 (and earlier versions) treat them the same as doubles.
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