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Hi,

according to the Matlab Help double computer precision (64-bit) is
default in Matlab for 32-bit computers. Maybe is this question
offtopic, but i would like to know why is there no higher precision,
e.g. 128-bit precision, for 32-bit computers?

What is the limitation for the computer precision?


Thank you in advance.

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