double precision

American  

noun

Computers.

1. using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.

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Example Sentences

The fastest U.S. supercomputer that is capable of doing nuclear weapons simulations called the Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory breached the 1 exaflop performance based on 64 bit double precision format this year.

From Reuters

He said that while complicated nuclear simulations and weather simulations historically ran in 64 bit double precision computers, this is a computationally expensive format, so researchers are looking into whether AI algorithms can eventually match such outcomes.

From Reuters

The rules define a supercomputer as any system with 100 or more petaflops of so-called double precision computing power, or 200-plus petaflops of single precision computing power, within a 41,600 cubic feet area.

From Reuters

Some people would argue that this card doesn’t particularly live up to the Titan Titan name due to having only 200 Gigaflops of double precision compute capability.

From Forbes

This double precision disparity also appears in the Quadro M6000 which is NVIDIA’s professional workstation graphics card.

From Forbes