On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:56:46 -0800 Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > >> The IEEE 754 compliant FPU on most machines today, though, has an 80-bit > >> internal representation. If you do a sequence of operations that retain > >> all the intermediate results in the FPU registers, you get 16 more bits > >> of precision than if you store after each operation. > > > > That's a big if though. Which languages support such a thing? C doubles > > are 64 bit, same as Python. > > Assembly! :)
Really? Why would you need that level of precision just to gather all the students into the auditorium? -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
