# double-precision floating-point format

> 64-bit computer number format

**Wikidata**: [Q1243369](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1243369)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/double-precision-floating-point-format


## References

1. IEEE 754-2008 revision
2. [Lecture Notes on the Status of IEEE Standard 754  for  Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic. University of California, Berkeley. 1997](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/IEEE754.PDF)
3. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
4. [Source](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.f64.html)
5. [Source](https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.double)