Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:41:40 -0500 From: "Chris Uppal" Newsgroups: comp.programming References: <507595db$0$6898$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: 64 bit code Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:40:59 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: <162dnU-Rw5IpVOrNnZ2dnUVZ8qCdnZ2d@bt.com> Lines: 16 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-mpw3jxcVRSKISzsO4UrY4KEnjwk20/iiCVdpb8Av3C0eyCFQKWyaIyAITrolK1/dQGQPkgqHoWI6Mgq!HWuo0sOqCDL8Owho8MZDwozhWQa+1u0uST/4ryRIECeft/okWTcju8XK7tPOnKDaTyk7qnFAY6H8 X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1588 Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:2328 Rui Maciel wrote: > And let's not forget about the ever elusive 80-bit extended precision > floating point format, also known as "why bother". For one answer, people might like to read: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Stnfrd50.pdf linked to from Kahan's page: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ -- chris