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| author | Costa Tsaousis <costa@tsaousis.gr> | 2018-10-18 17:31:52 +0300 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-10-18 17:31:52 +0300 |
| commit | e76aac74e69c7dd03060e800e206eee777661a0c (patch) | |
| tree | fa8e082b99d4d85c950f3d5d25385f9d14980c6f /libnetdata/storage_number | |
| parent | 15408ace0c2a81986026dd66446bb216c9b96eb6 (diff) | |
moved related wiki pages into the repo (#4428)
* moved related wiki pages into the repo
* updated web server docs
* fixed typos
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diff --git a/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md b/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md index e69de29bb2..206c42b873 100644 --- a/libnetdata/storage_number/README.md +++ 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. |