Discuss the difference between the precision of a measurement and the terms single and double precision, as they are used in computer science, typically to represent floating-point numbers that require 32 and 64 bits, respectively.
What will be an ideal response?
The precision of floating point numbers is a maximum precision. More ex-
plicity, precision is often expressed in terms of the number of significant digits
used to represent a value. Thus, a single precision number can only represent
values with up to 32 bits, ? 9 decimal digits of precision. However, often the
precision of a value represented using 32 bits (64 bits) is far less than 32 bits
(64 bits).
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