This discussion might find useful and interesting information
about single, double, and quad precision computation
in the Numerical Computation Guide, part of Sun's
Forte Developer documentation.
It is available as a single PDF file (1.7Mb, unfortunatly)
at
ftp://192.18.99.138/806-7996/806-7996.pdf
or from this page:
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Altho the focus is on Sun's SPARC hardware, the
discussion about numerical computation and accuracy is
general enough for most processors.
{Richard Friedman
{Sun Microsystems - Forte Tools
{Fortran/Technical Computing Documentation
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