Thread: printing FLOAT data type on the terminal window
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Unread 04-02-2007, 19:30
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Re: printing FLOAT data type on the terminal window
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Originally Posted by dcbrown View Post
The float/double data type is 8 bits of signed exponent and 24 bits of data - so a 32 bit integer value actually has 8 bits more precision than a float.
What do you mean by 'more precision' in this case?

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