Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:26:05 -0800, John Nagle wrote:
The IEEE 754 compliant FPU on most machines today, though, has an 80-bit
internal representation. If you do a sequence of operations that retain
all the intermediate results in the FPU registers, you get 16 more bits
of precision than if you store after each operation.
That's a big if though. Which languages support such a thing? C doubles
are 64 bit, same as Python.
Assembly! :)
~Ethan~
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