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From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: derived types
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Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 15:59:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 22 15:59:44 1985
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> If I were to adapt C to the 170 series, I would set the following types:
> 
>       ...
> 	float			60-bits
> 	double			60-bits
> -- 
> Robert Viduya

Don't you dare.  Double doesn't have to be exactly twice a float, but there
has to be enough to assist numerical calculations in certain kinds of error
determinations.

-- Norman Diamond

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