A binary floating-point number is with an integer significand of bits and an exponent in a fixed range; IEEE 754 double precision (binary64) has and exponents from to . Machine epsilon is the gap between 1 and the next larger number, ; the unit roundoff is half of it (some texts, and some libraries, call itself machine epsilon). A unit in the last place (ulp) of is the gap between the two floating-point numbers around .
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