On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 05:15:58 -0700, allber...@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 4:59 AM, <sisyph...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > > It's bad enough that perl5 and perl6 round to 15 decimal digits of > > precision, but at least perl5's printf will give me 17 decimal digits when > > I ask it to (and I think perl6 should do the same): > > > > I am wondering if youve talked to any Intel FP engineers. 17 decimal digits > sounds like you expect full internal 80-bit precision even if it's not in > an internal register. Good luck. > (gcc does have ways of doing this on sufficiently recent processors. msvc > does NOT. So, you've just demanded a Windows vs. Unix difference be > enshrined in the language?) >
Perhaps the discussions about who talked to Intel engineers could be moved somewhere off the RT? The person fixing this ticket can figure out how much precision we can possibly give, without any luck wished upon those who made a feature request.
