The floating-point types are available in single precision (FLOAT) and double precision (DOUBLE).

Floating-point values are usually represented using either 32 bits (single precision) or 64 bits (double precision).

Treat floating point constant as single precision constant instead of implicitly converting it to double precision constant.

This chip is capable of delivering 3.95 GFLOPs on single precision calculations and 1.31 GFLOPs on double precision ones.

FLOAT is a single precision floating point number.

The airport has a single 3,000-meter precision runway.

Float is a real floating-point number with single precision.

With the Pentium-4, you can also use 2 elements vectors in double precision, instead of 4 elements in simple precision.

Single precision peak performance is over a Teraflop per GPU.

The float versions provide quicker output, which may be important if you're using Csound in a real-time setting.