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From: tihor@acf3.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
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Subject: MP floating point
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Date: 13 May 91 16:45:00 GMT
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Can anyone tell me what the general cost in operations of a general 
multiprecision floating point package on an IEEE system.  While it
did not look like IEEE contained enough support to do optimally I
may well have missed some tricks.