On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 3:48:47 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > My question was "does Julia always use float64 even if its a 32 bit > build?" so that a real can be assumed to at least be that size. > Yes. Floating-point literals in Julia are always Float64.
(The width of floating-point types has nothing to do with 32- vs. 64-bit CPUs, which refers to the width of addresses. Even purely 32-bit CPUs had 64-bit floating-point registers, and in fact often supported even wider types in hardware.)
