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Subject: Re: understanding floating point types
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On Aug 22, 7:22=A0pm, Yannick Duch=EAne (Hibou57)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Le Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:57:42 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov =A0
> <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de> a =E9crit:>> Thanks. The Float'Machine_Mantis=
sa remains constant in your examples
> >> with 1 and 2 precision digits. Is the Float'Machine_Mantissa a
> >> predefined value that is constant for any precision digit requested?
>
> > No, it is the is best fitting machine number available (compiler's =A0
> > choice):
>
> Yes, because it would be too much expensive to create a custom float =A0
> representation to save a few bits. It would even requires to redefine all=
 =A0
> operations (a kind of FPU emulation, like the one Pascal did for old =A0
> i386/i486).

Yes. Thanks for this information.

YC