Steve Kargl wrote:
Can someone confirm or refute that the working number
of bits in the significand of long double type is 53
on i386?


Yes, this is what IEEE 754 requires.
(See http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html,
section 'The IEEE Standard')


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