CAGE User's Guide

Floating-Point Precision

The advantage of using floating-point precision is the large range of numbers that you can use, but that makes the computation harder.

There are three types of floating-point precision that you can choose from:

• IEEE double precision (64 bit)
• IEEE single precision (32 bit)
• Custom precision

If you choose Custom precision, you must specify the following:

• Number of mantissa bits
• Number of exponent bits
• Range of values restricting the values in the table

When you are done, click OK.

See Also

• For more information on IEEE double precision in MATLAB^®, see Moler, C., "Floating points," The Mathworks Company Newsletter, 1996.

Table Properties

Polynomial Ratio, Fixed Point