Re: [gforth] SET-PRECISION in 0.5.0

[David N. Williams]

Anton Ertl wrote:
> [...]

My comment was not about ANS Forth at all.  It was simply a statement
about how many digits you need for an exact decimal representation of
2^-1000.  IEEE DP FP numbers can actually can have numbers down to
2^-1055, and 8087 extended precision can have numbers down to 2^-16447.

Sorry for the confusion! I didn't intend "accurate" as a synonym for "exact". :-)

-- David



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