Re: [PHP-DOC] Re: cvs: phpdoc /en/functions math.xml

[Hartmut Holzgraefe]

Jesus M. Castagnetto wrote:

>In fortran (and other langs), float was 16 bit and
>double 32 bit (IIRC). Some newer langs and scripting
>ones use the double width for either.
>
and in C we now have 'float' for the single precision 32 bit IEEE 754 type,
'double' for the 64 bit type and 'long double' for 80 bit type

i definetly know about this, but the average newbie won't so why confuse 
him?