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double-float

Type
Summary

A subtype of float.

Package

common-lisp

Signature

double-float

Description

double-float is disjoint from short-float and single-float in all LispWorks implementations in version 5.0 and later.

Compatibility notes

In LispWorks 4.4 and previous on Windows and Linux platforms, all floats are of type double-float. However, there are distinct specialized array types (array single-float), with single precision, and (array double-float), with double precision.

See also

long-float
parse-float
short-float
single-float


LispWorks User Guide and Reference Manual - 13 Feb 2015

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