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RE: Precision of doubles and stdio
- From: skaller <skaller at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: "Thread TITTTL'd!" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "'Phil Betts'" <Phil dot Betts at heis dot co dot uk>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:14:49 +1100
- Subject: RE: Precision of doubles and stdio
- References: <058a01c6414d$7f958370$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 18:40 +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> This is utter fantasy. Floating point hardware either conforms to IEEE754,
> which specifies the exact algorithms to be used in different rounding modes,
> or it is broken.
.. as Intel found out :))
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John Skaller <skaller at users dot sourceforge dot net>
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