"Grant Edwards" wrote:
Not *any* computer? Not in *any* way? The Python built-in "float"
type "works with the set of real numbers", in a way.
The only people who think that are people who don't actualy _use_
floating point types on computers.
FPU parsing the IEEE spec, or?. I didn't quite parse what *you* wrote.
To paraphrase:
#include <math.h>
"there are FP_NORMAL and FP_SUBNORMAL people in the world;
those who understand IEEE 754 and those who don't." ..
--gv
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