Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:02:19 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Denis Antrushin <DAntrushin@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Number of significand bits in long double? Message-ID: <20050805160219.GB4147@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <42F36675.2090602@mail.ru> References: <20050804150405.GA95916@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <42F36675.2090602@mail.ru>
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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
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