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<h3 class="section">4.3 Single Precision Data Types</h3>
<p>Octave includes support for single precision data types, and most of the
functions in Octave accept single precision values and return single
precision answers. A single precision variable is created with the
<code>single</code> function.
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<dt><a name="index-single"></a><em></em> <strong>single</strong> <em>(<var>x</var>)</em></dt>
<dd><p>Convert <var>x</var> to single precision type.
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<p><strong>See also:</strong> <a href="Numeric-Data-Types.html#XREFdouble">double</a>.
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<p>for example:
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<pre class="example">sngl = single (rand (2, 2))
⇒ sngl =
0.37569 0.92982
0.11962 0.50876
class (sngl)
⇒ single
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<p>Many functions can also return single precision values directly. For
example
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<pre class="example">ones (2, 2, "single")
zeros (2, 2, "single")
eye (2, 2, "single")
rand (2, 2, "single")
NaN (2, 2, "single")
NA (2, 2, "single")
Inf (2, 2, "single")
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<p>will all return single precision matrices.
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