Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: higher precision doubles Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:48:28 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 00:49:43 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="f8igmItKsWs6nM5YanFxAA"; logging-data="17659"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+C484k65ACwnoAbCiUQI9f" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:jc3JD0KzJ3rrd2Qcv0zEihLF0NA= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6860 On 8/7/2011 3:23 PM, Jan Burse wrote: >[...] > So here I can restate my question: > > I would like for whatever reason work with 80bit > floats as defined above in Java. I am interested > in the full set of arithmetic functions, I/O and > trigonometric functions. How could I do that? You have already said "So pointing me to JLS is like turning cycles, only confirming that Java has only float and double." That is, the JLS has already given you an answer -- but you don't like the answer, and keep asking for a different one. Do you really think your persistent rejection of "No" is productive? "I want to climb the rainbow." "The rainbow is an illusion of refraction and angles, not a physical climbable thing." "Why don't you tell me how to climb the rainbow instead of saying `No' all the time?" -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid