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> robin wrote:
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> > Of course I can say that. It's excessive precision
> > because it's not available on most systems (about 99.9% of them).
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> 99.9% is a little bit pessimistic
Perhaps. But how many IBM-type [intel] PCs are out there? 100 million?
How many Crays are out there? 1000? 10,000? 100,000?
If 100.,000, that makes 99%. Sorry, i must have exaggerated.
> Cray compilers support quadruple precision (>24 digits)
> SGI "
> IBM "
> (for others I don't know. SUN doesn't)
>
> So Cray+SGI+IBM are only 0.1% of scientific computing market?
> Best regards,
> | Pierre Hugonnet | mail....CGG |
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