To be more precise. On both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows machines I don't see.float96 as well as np.float128
- Ilan On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ilan Schnell <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm seeing the same thing on both (64 and 32-bit) Windows >> EPD test machines. I guess Windows does not support 128 >> bit floats. > > Do you mean there is no float96 on windows 32 bit as I described at > the beginning of the thread? > >> I did some tests a few weeks ago, and discovered that also >> on the Mac and Linux long long double is not really 128 bits. >> If I remember correctly it was 80 bits: 1 (sign) + 16 (exp) + 63 (mantissa) > > Yes, that's right, on Intel for linux and OSX longdouble is 80 bit precision. > > Thanks, > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ > 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
