Dec 31, 2021 · I've read about the difference between double precision and single precision. However, in most cases, float and double seem to be interchangeable, i.e. using one or the other does not …

May 9, 2012 · This is the reason why we call them "floating point numbers" - we allow the decimal point to "float" depending on how big the number that we want to write is. Let's give an example in decimal …

Jun 29, 2009 · What are the differences between numeric, float and decimal datatypes and which should be used in which situations? For any kind of financial transaction (e.g. for salary field), which one is …

Dec 14, 2015 · Just wondering over here, what is the point of having a variable store an infinite value in a program? Is there any actual use and is there any case where it would be preferable to use foo = …

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Dec 6, 2015 · 0 Talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill. If you relax the requirement to make a float analog of the range function, and just create a list of floats that is easy to use in a for loop, the …

Jun 26, 2012 · 4 The precision of float is 7 digits. If you want to keep the whole lot, you need to use the double type that keeps 15-16 digits. Regarding formatting, look at a post about formatting doubles. …

Jun 9, 2019 · Numpy's dtype documentation only shows "x bits exponent, y bits mantissa" for each float type, but I couldn't translate that to exactly how many digits before/after the decimal point. …

How do I generate random floats in C++? I thought I could take the integer rand and divide it by something, would that be adequate enough?

Feb 14, 2020 · I'm new to programming and have recently come up with this simple question . float type has 32 bits in which 8 bits are for the whole number part (the mantissa). so my question is can float …