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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: fortran to C converter
Message-ID: <12667@lanl.gov>
Date: 26 Apr 89 00:36:24 GMT
References: <12661@lanl.gov>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <12661@lanl.gov>, by jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles):
> [...]                                                   In fact, the
> only surprising thing about floating point in the standard is that
> it requires the FLT_RADIX to be 2 - that is, it requires "float" to
> be binary!  No radix is defined for "double" or "long double".

My mistake!  Another part of the standard says that FLT_RADIX applies to
all three floating point types.  So, C requires floating point to be binary.
This is a departure from ANSI programming languages in the past.