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? There are so many bizarro combinations in that processor family...

david
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