A double precision number is one which occupies two storage loactions within a computer store. The locations are at address and address+1. Current computer with 32 [bit] stores, provide 64 [bit] double precision. The numbers may be defined to be integer, fixed point or floating point. Double precision floating point is an IEEE standard for encoding floating point numbers that uses 8 bytes.
Double Precision
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