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. -- Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
