What's the difference between a single precision and double precision floating point operation?

Question

What is the difference between a single precision floating point operation and double precision floating operation?

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Answer 1

According to the IEEE754 • Standard for floating point storage • 32 and 64 bit standards (single precision and double precision) • 8 and 11 bit exponent respectively • Extended formats (both mantissa and exponent) for intermediate results