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From: shaff@elements.rpal.com (Mike Shaff)
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Subject: Re: GnuEmacs 18.54 & Gnubash
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Date: 1 Aug 90 22:43:13 GMT
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In-Reply-To: coolidge@cassius.cs.uiuc.edu's message of 1 Aug 90 21:53:55 GMT

ciao,

I am tracking down some floating point information for A/UX 2.0, can anyone
confirm or deny these numbers:

Number of mantissa bits 23
Exponent size 8
Maximum exponent ((1 << Exponent size) - 2)

These were found in /usr/local/include/sys/fp.h.

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