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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Does Ada need elemental functions to make it suitable for
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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> Le 29/07/2012 22:30, Simon Wright a écrit :
>> 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

Yes, but - *commonly-available*. And I think we can omit the ones used
in calculators.