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Quadruple-precision floating-point format

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Quad precision is a floating point datatype in computer science made up of 128 bits. In the IEEE 754r proposed revised floating point standard, this is the third basic binary floating point format, together with 64 bits double precision and the 32 bit single precision formats.

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