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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2018-11-07 12:22:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2018-11-07 12:22:44 +0000 |
| commit | 1e6c93250172946eeb38e94a92a1fd12c9d3011e (patch) | |
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Merging upstream version 1.11.0+dfsg.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md b/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..206c42b87 --- /dev/null +++ b/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +# netdata storage number + +Although `netdata` does all its calculations using `long double`, it stores all values using +a **custom-made 32-bit number**. + +This custom-made number can store in 29 bits values from `-167772150000000.0` to `167772150000000.0` +with a precision of 0.00001 (yes, it's a floating point number, meaning that higher integer values +have less decimal precision) and 3 bits for flags. + +This provides an extremely optimized memory footprint with just 0.0001% max accuracy loss. |