To be 100% accurate, a double is a 64 bit value on a 32 bit machine only :)
Best Regards, Dov Levenglick SmartDSP OS Development Leader -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shmuel Fomberg Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 00:41 To: Perl in Israel Subject: [Israel.pm] 64-bit floating point numbers Hi. Yesterday I have written a function that converts a binary 64-bit floating point number to Math::BigFloat. It was very interesting, with a lot of playing with bits and exponents, until I realized that such numbers are really just 'double's, and are supported anyway. oh well. Shmuel. _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
