matlab scaled,Scaled Doubles

What is the Difference between Scaled Double and Double Data Types?

The storage container for both the scaled double and double data types is

floating-point double. Therefore both data type override settings,

Double and Scaled double, provide the range and

precision advantages of floating-point doubles. Scaled doubles retain the information

about the specified data type and scaling, but doubles do not retain this information.

Because scaled doubles retain the information about the specified scaling, they can also

be used for overflow detection.

Consider an example where you want to store a value of 0.75001

degrees Celsius in a data type sfix16_En13. For this data type:

The slope is S=2−13.

The bias is B=0.

Using the scaling equation V≈V~=SQ+B, where V is the real-world value and

Q is the stored integer value:

B=0.

V~=SQ=2−13Q=0.75001.

Because the storage container of the data type sfix16_En13 is 16

bits, the stored integer Q can only be represented as an integer within

these 16 bits. Therefore, the ideal value of Q is quantized to

6144, causing precision loss.

If you override the data type sfix16_En13 with

Double, the data type changes to Double and you

lose the information about the scaling. The stored-value equals the real-world value

0.75001.

If you override the data type sfix16_En13 with Scaled

Double, the data type changes to flts16_En13. The scaling

is still given by _En13 and is identical to that of the original data

type. The only difference is the storage container used to hold the stored value which is

now double so the stored-value is 6144.08192. This

example shows one advantage of using scaled doubles: the virtual elimination of

quantization errors.