On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Charles R Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Matthieu Brucher > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I don't think there is longdouble on Windows, is there?
>>> np.longdouble <type 'numpy.float96'> >>> np.longdouble(5).itemsize 12 >>> np.double(5).itemsize 8 >> > > The MSVC compilers don't support extended precision, or rather, long doubles > are the same as doubles. I don't know what other compilers on windows do. I have the mingw version, gcc3.5 or so So to me it looks like float96 is there, but not used in calculations. (I never tried to use it for anything before.) Josef > > <snip> > > Chuck > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
