double precision

collocation in English

meaningsofdoubleandprecision

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double
adjective
uk
/ˈdʌb.əl/us
/ˈdʌb.əl/
twice the size, amount, price, etc., or consisting of two similar ...
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precision
noun[U]
uk
/prɪˈsɪʒ.ən/us
/prəˈsɪʒ.ən/
the quality of ...
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(Definition ofdoubleandprecisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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All fitness calculations are done withdoubleprecisionarithmetic.
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The calculations were made withdoubleprecisionand with orthogonalization of the solution vectors to decrease the numerical errors.
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The system generates 500 points in two retinal planes withdoubleprecisioncoordinates.
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Unexpectedly, the exact version even surpasses the performance of thedoubleprecisionone.
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It was found that for such a large system, the numerical error with adoubleprecisioncalculation dominates the reduced truncation error.
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All libraries compute the correct values in contrast to thedoubleprecisionimplementation, which runs really fast, but is completely wrong.
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Some of the eigenvalues have been calculated indoubleprecisionas a test of round-off error and many have been calculated for various matrix sizes as a test of truncationerror.
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For this reason, we useddoubleprecision.
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When one or both of the operands has a tag of 2, adoubleprecisionadd is performed, otherwise tag 0 indicates single precision.
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Divides have variable latency that depends on whether the operation is being performed on single or ondoubleprecisionfloating-point numbers and numbers.
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In the meantime, there are ways to circumvent this in software using iterative refinement, which means values are calculated indoubleprecisiononly when necessary.
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Therefore, the smallest number in the normalized range is narrower thandoubleprecision.
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Both real and complex arithmetic are supported, with single anddoubleprecision.
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Minifloats with 16 bits are half-precision numbers (opposed to single anddoubleprecision).
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