Data type: REAL : Real

Description of: REAL : Real

Floating point numbers are approximations for real numbers. Floating point numbers occur whenever quantities of the real world are measured or estimated or as the result of calculations that include other floating point numbers.

Component definitions for: REAL : Real

precision :: N

The precision of the floating point number in terms of the number of significant decimal digits.

value :: N

The value without the notion of precision or with an arbitrary precision. We only specify an internal (unusable) data type for true real numbers of infinite precision.