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June 7, 2014, 18:49	Better answer with Single v.s. Double precision	#1
enayath Senior Member Joe Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Canada Posts: 111 Rep Power: 14	Hello, I am wondering if somebody can explain this to me: My calculation is natural convection in a closed domain. When I use single precision(sp) the continuity residual is in order of 10e-7 but when I use double precision(dp) the residual is in order of 10e4(plus 4) I think dp should work better than sp...mine is not reversed! Thank you in advance!

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