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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Killer Micro II
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.175933.28804@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <527@llnl.LLNL.GOV> <603@array.UUCP> <2482@l.cc.purdue.edu> <MCCALPIN.90Aug28121912@pereland.cms.udel.edu> <2471@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 90 17:59:33 GMT

In article <2471@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>  I hear from the applications support people that few of our Cray users
>are doing 128 bit. It does get used, but more as a reflection of
>problems with the N.A. than because the input or output data are
>significant to that extent.

I would suspect that the awful properties of Cray arithmetic might also
have something to do with an occasional need for 128 bits.
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