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diff --git a/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md b/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 2dd6df6cf..000000000 --- a/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -<!-- -title: "Netdata storage number" -custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md -sidebar_label: "Storage number" -learn_status: "Published" -learn_topic_type: "Tasks" -learn_rel_path: "Developers/libnetdata" ---> - -# 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. - - |