Andy Sy wrote: > c) need the precision for mathematical calculations >
Need the precision for mathematical calculations? The last time I checked, double precision IEEE-754 numbers are 64 bits wide, and every PC FPU since the 8087 math coprocessor has been internally doing floating point operations on 80-bit long doubles. I don't see how going 64-bit would make mathematical calculations more precise than you can already do them. It would make them faster, certainly, but they'll be just as accurate as they were on 32-bit processors. -- The ability to change outcomes is not the ability to control outcomes. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
