----- Original Message -----
From: Orlando Andico
To: The Main Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Discussion List
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Re: ACM-ICPC 2006 World Finals to use open source
if i may ask a potentially stupid question.
what is the use of "long double?" arguably,
people who need numbers that large would
be using GMP or PARI.
actually this is a good question.... you usually use this huge precision if
you deal with huge numbers just to get the most accurate answer.... one good
example is in the field of astronomy...
fooler.
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