On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 00:43:02 +0100, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:

>I can only speak for the insurance company that I am working with
>since a very long time now.
>
>For them, the portability across platforms of the "non-trivial arithmetic 
>package"
>is the most important challenge, and so they decided to do it all in C, (using 
>HFP
>on the mainframe, because at the time, when they started, there was no
>BFP around).
> 
But nowadays, isn't IEEE FP far more portable than HFP?

-- gil

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