Decimal and, only the best mathematicians were able to multiply or divide large numbers. These difficulties were completely solved with the introduction of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system for representing integers. This system has been extended to represent some non-integer numbers, called "decimal fractions" or "decimal numbers" for forming the "decimal numeral system". For writing numbers, the decimal system uses ten decimal digits, a decimal mark, and, for negative numbers, a minus sign "−". The decimal digits are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; the decimal separator is the dot "" in many countries (including English speaking ones),
Decimal floating point The following example is decimal, which simply means the base is 10. This is nothing other than converting to scientific notation. In detail: This is the true result, the exact sum of the operands. It will be rounded to 7 digits and then normalized if necessary. The final result is: Note that the low 3 digits of the second operand (654) are essentially lost. This is round-off error. In extreme cases, the sum of two non-zero numbers may be equal to one of them: Another problem of loss of significance occurs when two close numbers are subtracted. e=5; s=1.234571 and