>>>>> "P" == Patrick De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
P> On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, DAVID BALAZIC wrote:
P> Is double not a good/ the needed thing for high
P> quality/accuracy; if I remember correctly IEEE-float only has
P> 23 mantissa bits, which is an accuracy of only approx 1e-7 or
P> 1e-6 ?
IEEE-float has
1 sign bit
8 exponential bits
23 mantissa bits
and because there's 1 bit hidden mantissa, we have 24 mantissa and 1e-7
accuracy.
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