floating point precision problem

[Keith Thompson]

All Great Minds Think Alike

ASDO

(And So Do Ours.)

 

[Dik T. Winter]

>

> So what do they use for 80 bits?

As far as I know: nothing. That is not a standard type on the Sparc.
You would also have a hard time finding a floating point type with
80 bits mantissa on the Cray. The mantissa is either 48 bits or
96 bits.