Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:15:33 +0400 From: Denis Antrushin <DAntrushin@mail.ru> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Number of significand bits in long double? Message-ID: <42F36675.2090602@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <20050804150405.GA95916@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20050804150405.GA95916@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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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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