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Carl Smotricz
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From Wikipedia has this to say in the same context with a link to IEEE 754:

On a typical computer system, a 'double precision' (64-bit) binary floating-point number has a coefficient of 53 bits (one of which is implied), an exponent of 11 bits, and one sign bit.

2^53 is just over 9 * 10^15.

From Wikipedia:

On a typical computer system, a 'double precision' (64-bit) binary floating-point number has a coefficient of 53 bits (one of which is implied), an exponent of 11 bits, and one sign bit.

2^53 is just over 9 * 10^15.

Wikipedia has this to say in the same context with a link to IEEE 754:

On a typical computer system, a 'double precision' (64-bit) binary floating-point number has a coefficient of 53 bits (one of which is implied), an exponent of 11 bits, and one sign bit.

2^53 is just over 9 * 10^15.

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Carl Smotricz
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From Wikipedia:

On a typical computer system, a 'double precision' (64-bit) binary floating-point number has a coefficient of 53 bits (one of which is implied), an exponent of 11 bits, and one sign bit.

2^53 is just over 9 * 10^15.