From: "Dan Nagle" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: an array size question
> robin wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > DOUBLE PRECISION is, by definition, DOUBLE PRECISION.
> > Whether extra bits are taken for the exponent or not, is irrelevant.
>
> From the point of view of numeric portability,
> that is precisely the point.
>
> > If the storage taken by a DOUBLE OPRECISION is double that
> > taken by REAL, then it's DOUBLE PRECISION.
>
> Huh?
> So complex is double precision?
Have a good day.
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