Steve Kargl wrote:
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:15:33PM +0400, Denis Antrushin wrote:
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')
BZZZT.
You're not even close to correct. See Table 1 in the IEEE
754 standard and then read section 3.4.
Well, you know the answer then ;-)
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