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exponent range!exponent range!Posted May 2, 2006 2:18 UTC (Tue) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027)In reply to: Careful with the omissions... by Stavros Parent article: Portability and Pitfalls of C-Types (developerWorks)
The increased exponent range of double precision (about 10**308) in contrast to single precision (about 10**38) is at least as important as the increased precision (about 13 decimal digits vs. about 6.)
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