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double precision |
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double precisionUsing two computer words instead of one to hold a number used for calculations, thus allowing twice as large a number for more arithmetic precision. Contrast with single precision. double precision [¦dəb·əl prə′sizh·ən] (computer science) The use of two computer words to represent a double-length number. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Hardware acceleration engines onboard the MPC8544E include Double Precision, Floating Point, Signal Processing Engine, TCP Offload and Freescale's industry leading Security Acceleration Engine. Each of the Advance boards is capable of over 50 GFLOPS of sustained double precision matrix multiplication operations while averaging only 25 watts power dissipation, approximately four times the performance per watt of today's best industry standard processors. ClearSpeed Technology is a specialist semiconductor company focused on delivering double precision high performance coprocessors and boards to be used alongside general purpose processors in the world's most compute-intensive applications. |
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