From: "Alec Mihailovs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Being an assembler programmer, I can say definitely that all FPU registers > on x86 are 80-bit and all compilers that I know compile long double as > 80-bit numbers.
>From other point of view, 80-bit real gives 64-bit precision in usual sense (mantissa), while a 64-bit double has 53-bit precision in usual sense. Alec --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
