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From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Here's a challenge for floating point lovers.
Message-ID: <3322@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 91 23:47:11 GMT
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(Apologies for the apparent waste of bandwidth...)

Doug, I can't find another host besides "gould" who can talk to you
to send mail, so...

In article <14993@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: 
>
>(I'm trying to resist my usual slam at IEEE floating point.)
>

How many different floating point formats are there out there?  I'm
aware of IEEE and VAX.  Are there any others, and what are the pros and
cons?

I can only assume that somehow IEEE is drain-bamaged; whether by loss of
precision or what, I don't know.

-- 
thought:  I ain't so damb dumn!
war: Invalid argument
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