Single precision mathematics uses fewer significant digits, and therefore uses less memory and is faster. Double precision mathematics uses more significant digits, and is therefore more accurate and less prone to round-off errors.
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From: Erkan Tekeli
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Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 6:08 AM
Subject: Re: [ABAQUS] how to switch from SINGLE PRECISION to DOUBLE PRECISION
Hi All
What is differences single precision with double precision
Erkan
Uday komaragiri <
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From command line:
abaqus job=<jobname> double
or from CAE,
edit job in the job manager.
On 2/8/07, subhash_anurag2 <
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> Hi All,
> I am running large deformation on Abaqus/Explicit and my status file
> says that because this analysis contains more than 30,000 elements,
> double precision is recommended.
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> It indicates that for successful running of simulation, I must switch
> to double precision.
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> Can anyone elaborate to me how to do it.
> Thanks,
>
> Subhash Anurag
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