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Data Structures – Primitives

Coding Blocks

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The Range of Double Double Is Several Times Greater Than the Range of Decimal

The range of double double is several times larger than the range of decimal. The reason for this is that they're used for quite different things. Decimal is 128 bit floating point number with a higher precision and a smaller range. But it's not a big double point is to point that I wanted to make though. It is, it is still floating.

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