At 13:22 20-11-2000 +0100, you wrote:
>robin wrote:
Isn't this discussion going too far off the track of the original
subject ?? :-)
>> > 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 ;-)
And I suppose we all know about the existence of super-computers ..
though I don't have one on my desk.
>Pierre
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