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**3. Does your computer support all those formats? Can you think of an easy way to check with only one line of Python?** **3. Does your computer support all those formats? Can you think of an easy way to check with only one line of Python?**
I can easily use `numpy.finfo` to return information about the floating-point data type used by my system, and it shows that my computer uses 64 bits by default and can also use float16 and float32. However, a quadruple-precision format is not supported by my system as it returns a warning. I can easily use `numpy.finfo` to return information about the floating-point data type used by my system, and it shows that my computer uses 64 bits by default and can also use float16 and float32. However, a quadruple-precision format is not supported by my system as it returns a warning.
![Floating-point formats](https://github.com/Karenzky/PythonBootcamp/blob/main/float%20formats.png)
**4. Why doesn't this code give the same answers to the two multiplications?** **4. Why doesn't this code give the same answers to the two multiplications?**