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From: turk@Apple.COM (Ken "Turk" Turkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.fortran,comp.misc,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Quadruple-Precision Floating Point ?
Summary: EVERY machine can have quad precision!
Keywords: REAL*16 software?
Message-ID: <23762@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 89 18:47:04 GMT
References: <8561@alice.UUCP> <Jan.3.11.10.38.1989.15342@pilot.njin.net>
Organization: Advanced Technology Graphics, Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA, USA
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Any machine with double precision can have quad precision floating point.

Look at:

Linnainmaa, Seppo
_Software for Doubled-Precision Floating-Point Computations_
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
Vol. 7, No. 3, Sept. 1981, pp. 272-283
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Ken Turkowski @ Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA
Internet: turk@apple.com
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