| -----Original Message-----
| From: Jan Skibinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 3:11 PM
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| Subject: Re: doubles
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| > Aha . And how many digits will GHC offer me?
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| I would think that you will get the same number of digits
| as is available for C - unless some bits are reserved
| for something special, which I am not aware of.
| For example, in some implementations of Smalltalk the most
| significant bit is used as a flag to distinquish between
| a reference to an object and an unboxed integer, hence their
| integers are one bit shorter than in C.
|
| Jan
Around 16 digits.
J
