Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.chainon-marquant.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!s09-10.readnews.com!not-for-mail From: Patrick Scheible Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! References: <1319.297T1386T264355@kltpzyxm.invalid> <4E60C6B7.40309@SPAM.comp-arch.net> <8ht167tjg1dg9e22ekkf46dhfud0am962g@4ax.com> <1319.297T1386T264355@kltpzyxm.invalid> <4E60C6B7.40309@SPAM.comp-arch.net> <8ht167tjg1dg9e22ekkf46dhfud0am962g@4ax.com> <8639gek6lo.fsf@zipcon.net> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:45:13 -0700 Message-ID: <867h401wra.fsf@zipcon.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zOfokAA2JsrfTmq06oU88eueTHo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 21 Organization: The Zip Connection (zipcon.net) NNTP-Posting-Host: eb47b1e7.news.zipcon.net X-Trace: DXC=k1Jd]o3\DQKoV<7HGJPfoNU>Dm5d6:E6MReCo\VJ>PWOAKGKmPXic2K_A>1gcoFWoMFgGdNITEc9I X-Complaints-To: abuse@zipcon.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.arch:4272 Piotr Wyderski writes: > jmfbahciv wrote: > > >>>> 34587706689349 times. >>>> >>>> It sure makes it hard to read and there is no excuse for that. I >>>> realize there are issues with commas versus spaces as separators, but >>>> these could be overcome. >>> >>> Even if they use spaces instead of commas, it's still easier to read >>> than no separators at all. >> >> Not spaces.. Which do you chose? > > 123_456_789 So that's -1122, right? -- Patrick