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Re: long double data type

  • Subject: Re: long double data type
  • From: Jonas Maebe <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:32:09 +0200
On 14 Jun 2010, at 20:17, Jens Alfke wrote:

> I’m not an expert on FP math, but I don’t know of any float data type supported on Mac OS with more than 64 bits of precision (aka ‘double’).

"long double" has 128 bit precision on PPC and 80 bits of precision on Intel (in both cases the precision is the same in 32 and 64 bit mode).


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