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double, quadrupole precision computations possible ? 1
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double and quadruple precision is an artifact of programming language definitions of storage requirements for floating point precision. This is why triple precision doesn't exist, since it's not a power of two.
Mathcad is not a programming language per se, and is essentially fixed at 15 digit precision for purely numeric calculations. HOWEVER, it symbolic processor can provide calculations with 2000 digit precision, if desired.
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Mathcad is not a programming language per se, and is essentially fixed at 15 digit precision for purely numeric calculations. HOWEVER, it symbolic processor can provide calculations with 2000 digit precision, if desired.
TTFN
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