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Re: higher precision doubles

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On 8/9/2011 5:00 AM, Jan Burse wrote:
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> The above document is a little bit sloppy, since it mentions
> only additional bits in the exponent. But 80bit doubles have
> both, additional bits in the mantissa and in the exponent.
> So differences might be more subtle.
...

My understanding from discussions at the time is that they were not
being sloppy. They had already solved dealing with the extra mantissa
bits, and remember the JLS defines *exactly* how numbers must round.

Patricia

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    Re: higher precision doubles Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2011-08-06 13:03 +0200
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