[Tutor] floating point accuracy [working with Fractions]

[Karen Bester]

Hi

Is there a method to determine the accuracy that you can get given a double precision number.  I'm looking for a formula or table that can tell me what accuracy I can get depending on "where" the decimal point lies. 

Thank you 

Karen
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