Floating-point values

For floating-point values, TNS floating-point representations have larger exponents (hence a larger range) than IEEE floating-point representations, but they are less precise, which is demonstrated in the following table:

Table 4: Floating-point ranges

Floating-point representation

Minimum positive decimal value

Maximum decimal value

TNS

1.7272337e-77

1.1579208e77

IEEE

1.17549435E-38F

3.40282347E+38F