From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Float & precision
Date: 1999/10/19
Date: 1999-10-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7uitsu$39h$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 380b47e6.444543814@news.dsuper.net
In article <380b47e6.444543814@news.dsuper.net>,
fluffy_pop@dsuper.net wrote:
> After all my
> pocket calculator does it without problems. It's an old cheap
> Casio model. I don't know if operates with 32 or 64 bits or
> maybe something else.
It probably operates in decimal, so if you are in the
decimal world, it will work without apparent oddities
coming from binary to decimal translation, but it is
of course infeasible to use decimal on high speed modern
computers
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1999-10-17 0:00 ` Float & precision fluffy_pop
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