On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:00 AM, frank wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On my two systems with Intel Core2 DUO, finfo(float128) gives me the > nameerro, "NameError: name 'float128' is not defined". Why? > > You probably run a 32 bit OS. IEEE extended precision is 80 bits. On 32 bit systems it fits in three 32 bit words and shows up as float96. On 64 bit systems it fits in two 64 bit words and shows up as float128. Chuck
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