BUILT-IN MATHEMATICA SYMBOL

$MachinePrecision

$MachinePrecision
gives the number of decimal digits of precision used for machine-precision numbers.

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A typical value of $MachinePrecision is 53Log[10, 2] or approximately 16.
$MachinePrecision is the numerical value of MachinePrecision.

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Hardware machine precision used for floating point computation:

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MachinePrecision $MachineEpsilon $MinMachineNumber $MaxMachineNumber

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