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|    Buzz McCool to Anton Ertl    |
|    Re: Floating point implementations on AM    |
|    15 May 24 11:37:10    |
      From: buzz_mccool@yahoo.com              On 4/13/2024 10:55 AM, Anton Ertl wrote:       > Gforth sticks out by using 8-byte FP values; ...              "Doubling back" to the beginning of this thread, does the above mean       that gforth uses IEEE binary64 aka double precision floating point       numbers to perform floating point math on the floating point stack?              This section https://gforth.org/manual/Floating-Point-Tutorial.html of       the gforth documentation doesn't come out and plainly say what floating       point precision (IEEE binary64 or IEEE binary32 or ... ) is used.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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