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A double can hold 15-17 significant base 10 digits. The exponent can be +-10^308 (11 bits for the exponent, 52 bits for the fraction, 1 bit for the sign).
by merpnderp 11y ago
A double can hold 15-17 significant base 10 digits. The exponent can be +-10^308 (11 bits for the exponent, 52 bits for the fraction, 1 bit for the sign).
- ajross 11y agoYes yes yes, I know how to represent an IEEE value. It was an interpretation error: the linked article shows a zillion variants of numbers with a leading significant of 0.3 (i.e. all the leading zeros are significant) while the posted string above did not.