From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <wwgrol@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>
To: whitaker@erols.com
Subject: Re: SI Units Solicitation - Upgrade from comments
Date: 1997/09/17
Date: 1997-09-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <341FF94F.66AA@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33FBD411.3B4A@erols.com
Forgive me if I'm repeating someone else. I had a News hiccup
and lost everything in this thread except the original message.
Regarding a scientist's suggestion on packing the exponents into
eight bits each: You could define exponents as
type xxx is range -127 .. 127;
allowing the compiler to choose whether to use 8 bits or more
(and indirectly, the user that chooses the compiler).
In the generic version, you could even allow the user to specify
the type of the exponent.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-08-21 0:00 SI Units Solicitation - Upgrade from comments William A Whitaker
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-22 0:00 ` William A Whitaker
1997-08-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <33FE221A.547E@gsg.eds.com>
1997-08-23 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-26 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-08-22 0:00 ` William A Whitaker
1997-08-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923 [this message]
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