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In one database it may mean profits in dollars (a floating-point number), while in the other it might represent the number of sales (an integer). en.wikipedia.org

Divides have variable latency that depends on whether the operation is being performed on single or on double precision floating-point numbers and numbers. en.wikipedia.org

Fixed-point number representation can be compared to the more complicated (and more computationally demanding) floating-point number representation. en.wikipedia.org

A 32 bit floating-point number has 23 bits to store the fraction in. en.wikipedia.org

If a very small floating-point number is added to a large one, the result is just the large one. en.wikipedia.org

The problem here is that random floating-point numbers, however carefully generated, always have only finite precision. en.wikipedia.org

The mantissa portion of long floating-point numbers could be chosen as 32, 40, 48, or 56 bits, with 56 bits being the standard value. en.wikipedia.org

It involves many data types and modules, supports integers and floating-point numbers of an arbitrary precision (including infinite precision). en.wikipedia.org

Suppose we want to determine whether a floating-point number is negative. en.wikipedia.org

For this reason, financial software tends not to use a binary floating-point number representation. en.wikipedia.org

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