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From: kremer@cs.odu.edu (Lloyd Kremer)
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Subject: Re: Need greater precision
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In article <1991Jun26.133648.503@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> hanrahan@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Bill Hanrahan) writes:

>I have a student here working on some neural net stuff and he needs to
>manipulate numbers with a lot more precision than the 16 or 18 digits
>that he now gets.


Microsoft C 6.00 has 'long double' (80 bits) pretty well implemented.

VAX C offers several floating types including H_FLOAT (128 bits).

					Lloyd Kremer
					Hilton Systems, Inc.
					kremer@cs.odu.edu