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unusual facts about double precision



Eigenvector slew

where "\operatorname{arg}(x\ ,\ y)" is the polar argument of the vector (\ x\ ,\ y\ ) corresponding to the function ATAN2(y,x) (or in double precision DATAN2(y,x)) available in for example the programming language FORTRAN.


see also

AltiVec

Unlike SSE2, AltiVec supports a special RGB "pixel" data type, but it does not operate on 64-bit double precision floats, and there is no way to move data directly between scalar and vector registers.

Single-precision floating-point format

However, float in Python, Ruby, PHP, and OCaml and single in versions of Octave prior to 3.2 refer to double-precision numbers.