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  2. Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    With some exceptions regarding erroneous values, infinities, and denormalized numbers, Excel calculates in double-precision floating-point format from the IEEE 754 specification [1] (besides numbers, Excel uses a few other data types [2]). Although Excel allows display of up to 30 decimal places, its precision for any specific number is no more ...

  3. Decimal time - Wikipedia

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    The large dial shows the ten hours of the decimal day in Arabic numerals, while the small dial shows the two 12-hour periods of the standard 24-hour day in Roman numerals. Decimal time is the representation of the time of day using units which are decimally related. This term is often used specifically to refer to the French Republican calendar ...

  4. Single-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia

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    Single-precision floating-point format. Single-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP32 or float32) is a computer number format, usually occupying 32 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values by using a floating radix point. A floating-point variable can represent a wider range of numbers than a ...

  5. Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and iPadOS. It features calculation or computation capabilities, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Excel forms part of the Microsoft 365 suite of software.

  6. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    1) Space, the internationally recommended thousands separator. 2) Period (or full stop), the thousands separator used in many non-English speaking countries. 3) Comma, the thousands separator used in most English-speaking countries. A decimal separator is a symbol that separates the integer part from the fractional part of a number written in ...

  7. List of Dewey Decimal classes - Wikipedia

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    Class 000 – Computer science, information, and general works. Class 100 – Philosophy and psychology. Class 200 – Religion. Class 300 – Social sciences. Class 400 – Language. Class 500 – Science. Class 600 – Technology. Class 700 – Arts and recreation. Class 800 – Literature.

  8. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    Orders of magnitude (time) An order of magnitude of time is usually a decimal prefix or decimal order-of-magnitude quantity together with a base unit of time, like a microsecond or a million years. In some cases, the order of magnitude may be implied (usually 1), like a "second" or "year". In other cases, the quantity name implies the base unit ...

  9. Round-off error - Wikipedia

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    For the acrobatic movement, roundoff, see Roundoff. In computing, a roundoff error, [1] also called rounding error, [2] is the difference between the result produced by a given algorithm using exact arithmetic and the result produced by the same algorithm using finite-precision, rounded arithmetic. [3] Rounding errors are due to inexactness in ...