These are based on the IEEE 754 standard, which defines a binary standard for 32-bit floating point and 64-bit double precision floating point binary-decimal Numbers.

A more general synonym is the float type, which has an arbitrary floating-point precision that you specify when declaring the data type as float (val).

Microwulf has been measured to process 26.25 gigaflops, or 26.25 billion double-precision floating point instructions, per second.