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by Thorrez 1132 days ago
Decimal means base 10. Decimus is the Latin word for 10, and deci- is the SI prefix for 1/10, e.g. decimeter is 1/10 of a meter. Decimal floating point is x*10^y whereas binary floating point is x*2^y . Compare to hexadecimal which means base 16.
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Derp. I misunderstood.