On 28 December 2012 16:53, Bradley Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> wrote:Inexact numbers are the same as C doubles (64-bit). Extended precision floating-point numbers (80-bit numbers) are used in extremis on machines that do not support 64-bit floating-point numbers natively. (Don't ask.)
Too late. Besides i have a penchant for quirky/bizarre architectures. Are we talking about x86 here?