robin wrote:
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> >
> > you should say: "on a few machines". For, most of compilers on classical
> > scientific Unix platforms (SGI, Sun, IBM,...) handle what is often named
> > a "quadruple precision" kind (128bit), with typically around 30 digit precision.
>
> There are some 50 million PCs that don't have it. That makes it
> "many".
>
That's true... To get the performance level of *ONE* 32 CPU SGI Origin 2000, you need about a *HUNDRED* PCs.... Many PCs, one SGI ;-)
Pierre
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