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RE: [f-cpu] Re: Floating-Point?



On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Hans Summers wrote:
> Fine, for the sake of comfort, use doubles (64-bit). And I am sure that some
> areas genuinely need more precision. But I still believe the number of
> applications requiring this much precision to be very small. For a general
> purpose processor implementing 128-bit FP is a waste of resources. 

Are there any 128BIT fp at all? There may be no requirement
from the market so far for this high precision. ;-)

jg


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