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From: nr@hart.Princeton.EDU (Norman Ramsey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3
Subject: Floating point question
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Date: 17 Jan 91 20:26:11 GMT
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If x : REAL, under what circumstances am I guaranteed
	FLOAT(LONGFLOAT(x)) = x?

(I'm uneasy about the ``ties are broken arbitrarily'' language in the
Definition.) 
--
Norman Ramsey
nr@princeton.edu