On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 09:51, Nadav Horesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As much as I know float128 are in fact 80 bits (64 mantissa + 16 > exponent) so the precision is 18-19 digits (not 34) > > float128 should be 128 bits wide. If it's not on your platform, please > let us know as that is a bug in your build. > I think he means the actual precision is the ieee extended precision, the number just happens to be stored into larger chunks of memory for alignment purposes. Chuck
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