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   John Dallman to Michael S   
   Re: floating point history, word order a   
   07 Jan 26 13:16:00   
   
   From: jgd@cix.co.uk   
      
   In article <20260107133424.00000e99@yahoo.com>, already5chosen@yahoo.com   
   (Michael S) wrote:   
      
   > I already asked you couple of years ago how fast do want binary128   
   > in order to consider it fast enough.   
   > IIRC, you either avoided the answer completely or gave totally   
   > unrealistic answer like "the same as binary64".   
   > May be, nobody bites because with non-answers or answers like that   
   > nobody thinks that you are serious?   
      
   I don't know much about hardware design. What is realistic for hardware   
   binary128?   
      
   John   
      
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