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Re: [Help-gsl] [OT] double vs long double


From: Brian Gough
Subject: Re: [Help-gsl] [OT] double vs long double
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:25:19 +0100
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At Sat,  7 Jun 2008 20:56:03 +0200,
Marco Maggi wrote:
> We do not use 16 bits "int" anymore, so are we not there yet
> for "long double"?

The size of long double is not standardised, so you would get
different results on different architectures.  Double precision is
always 53+11 bits.

-- 
Brian Gough




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