From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,ab436e97ff76821f X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.224.138.146 with SMTP id a18mr14319025qau.6.1343910080575; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 05:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Path: a15ni8244745qag.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!85.12.40.130.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for scientific work? Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:44:02 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <18c77859-480c-41f5-bb1c-df7ad067f4f3@googlegroups.com> <637de084-0e71-4077-a1c5-fc4200cad3cf@googlegroups.com> <6581ef3f-3e2c-4eeb-9a3f-eded557239d5@qk10g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:43:59 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e53b1d06105a4101a995a7820d7abbff"; logging-data="20563"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/5T0XfxJUccUCf3qvU/I3V" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:bAUFIAvqNNJkyWFFOTpo7Y0tbQE= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-07-29T23:44:02+02:00 List-Id: Le 29/07/2012 22:30, Simon Wright a �crit : > ix86's have 80-bit floats (GNAT's Long_Long_Float); what other > commonly-available extended hardware precisions are there? Lots of them. See for example http://mrob.com/pub/math/floatformats.html -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr