From: pfk@schnecke.offl.uni-jena.de (Frank Klemm)
Subject: Re: precise floats
Date: 1998/08/05
Date: 1998-08-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn6shd17.1mo.pfk@schnecke.offl.uni-jena.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6q8b4a$5cu$1@usenet.rational.com
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998 18:00:36 -0700, Corey Ashford <yeroca@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>
>If you need more precision than can be provided by the hardware and
>compiler, you'll need to obtain some extended precision arithmetic
>packages...
>
... which will slow down your computation by at least a factor of 100.
What about support of the 3 floating point types of the x86 architecture,
32-bit IEEE (7 digits), 64-bit IEEE (16 digits) and the internal FPU format
(19 digits).
Most compilers do *not* support the last.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-04 0:00 precise floats Bob Fletcher
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1998-08-05 0:00 ` Frank Klemm [this message]
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-06 0:00 ` dennison
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-07 0:00 ` paul.english
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-12 0:00 ` Kevin Radke
1998-08-25 0:00 ` Gene Ouye
1998-08-10 0:00 ` dennison
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Tom Weis
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-08-05 0:00 ` Bob Fletcher
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1998-08-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-09 0:00 ` Bob Fletcher
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1998-08-06 0:00 Robert Dewar
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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