On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > precision than the usual 56-bit mantissa. Do modern 64-bit systems > implement anything wider than the normal double?
I may have misinterpreted your question. Are you asking simply about what the hardware provides, or about what the C compiler and library support? Or something else entirely? It looks like IEEE-conforming 128-bit floats would have a 113-bit mantissa (including the implicit leading '1' bit). Mark _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
