[Python-Dev] Floating-point implementations (original) (raw)
Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 18:33:14 CET 2008
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On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
precision than the usual 56-bit mantissa. Do modern 64-bit systems implement anything wider than the normal double?
I may have misinterpreted your question. Are you asking simply about what the hardware provides, or about what the C compiler and library support? Or something else entirely?
It looks like IEEE-conforming 128-bit floats would have a 113-bit mantissa (including the implicit leading '1' bit).
Mark
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