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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: C Floating point arithmetic
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Date: Thu, 28-Nov-85 17:19:32 EST
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> ...  Why do you think they make machines
> with both single and double precision hardware to begin with?

Because Fortran has two precisions of floating point. :-) :-<<<
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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