DoubleFloat

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DoubleFloat

Usage

import from DoubleFloat

Description

DoubleFloat implements the single-precision signed machine floats.

Exports

CopyableType

FloatType

PackableType

: (%, %) $\to$ % exponentiation

coerce: SingleFloat $\to$ % conversion to double precision

max: % largest double-precision machine float

min: % smallest double-precision machine float

single: % $\to$ SingleFloat conversion to single precision

Subsections

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coerce,single
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Manuel Bronstein 2004-06-28

`CopyableType`
`FloatType`
`PackableType`
:	(%, %) $\to$ %	exponentiation
`coerce`:	`SingleFloat` $\to$ %	conversion to double precision
`max`:	%	largest double-precision machine float
`min`:	%	smallest double-precision machine float
`single`:	% $\to$ `SingleFloat`	conversion to single precision