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On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 14:26 +0200, Phillip Helbig wrote: > Not necessarily. It would if it used twice as many bits for the > mantissa, but I've never seen an implementation which does this; they > all used more. The IBM 7094 did. The 7090 software used two reals to represent double precision, ignoring the characteristic of the second one. The 7094 hardware perpetuated this. -- Van Snyder | What fraction of Americans believe [log in to unmask] | Wrestling is real and NASA is fake? Any alleged opinions are my own and have not been approved or disapproved by JPL, CalTech, NASA, Frederick Gregory, George Bush, or anybody else.