On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:26:05 -0800, John Nagle wrote: > The IEEE 754 compliant FPU on most machines today, though, has an 80-bit > internal representation. If you do a sequence of operations that retain > all the intermediate results in the FPU registers, you get 16 more bits > of precision than if you store after each operation.
That's a big if though. Which languages support such a thing? C doubles are 64 bit, same as Python. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
