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From: pfk@schnecke.offl.uni-jena.de (Frank Klemm)
Subject: Re: precise floats
Date: 1998/08/05
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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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