Table 1 Comparison of floating-point sizes and precisions (on a PC)
<B>Type Size (bytes) Significant Epsilon</B> <B> Digits</B> <B>------------------------------------------------------------------</B> <I>float</I> 4 7 1.192092896e-07 <I>double</I> 8 15 2.2204460492503131e-016 <I>long double</I> 10 19 5.4210108624275221706e-020