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What do you mean by double and quad precision?
by BlueTemplar 6y ago
What do you mean by double and quad precision?
- nmca 6y agoI would guess 64bit floating point (double) Vs 128bit floating point. Eg f32 and f128
- Lvl999Noob 6y agoProbably 64-bit and 128-bit floating point numbers.
- jackfoxy 6y agoRefers to the number of "words", in this case 2 or 4. The term word is not used so much anymore because it's kind of lost its usefulness in modern computer architectures. It used to refer to the size of CPU registers and/or bus widths. I guess the last generation where this was still as important was 32 bit, and that kind of stuck, hence double word floating point. [Edit] More informed description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)
- BlueTemplar 6y agoYes, these days when the typical word is 64-bit sized, these names have to go.