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From: ericw@gemini.SGI.COM (Eric Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: How do you get double precision?
Keywords: double precision reals
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Date: 24 Aug 88 22:20:24 GMT
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Simple question (and yes I have read all TFMs that I can find):

Is there a standard way to get double precision reals?  If it's
implementation dependent then I would be interested in how to do
it under SunOS, Ultrix, BSD and SysV.

Eric Williams

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