What are the values of single?
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What are the values of single?
Maximum values and minimum values ( negative and positive)?
I could not understand..
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John D'Errico
on 1 Dec 2018
Edited: John D'Errico
on 1 Dec 2018
realmax('single')
ans =
single
3.4028e+38
-realmax('single')
ans =
single
-3.4028e+38
The sign is not relevant. And I'm not sure what you don't understand so perhaps you need to explain what is the question. A single precision number in MATLAB floating point is composed of a sign bit, an exponent stuffed into 8 bits, and a mantissa encoded as 23 binary bits, for a total of 32 bits (4 hex bytes) of information. dpb gave a useful reference that explains the basics.
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