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What is a double float ?

Archive · 2005 2 old posts

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Nu Audio Science ·

? Someone mentioned 64 bit but any links would be nice ?

unkargherth ·

Well, it's exactly this. a Real Number represented in 64 bit precission. The ones you define in C/C++ as double

They're not so common as floats, but sometimes used in DSP because some filters become more stable if you use float for making them

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