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Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Lynn McGuire

Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designa

16 Oct 24 22:46:00

   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 17:44:06 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
      
   > The guys at NIST are talking about quadruple precision as a standard.   
      
   That’s long overdue, but not in itself a reason for going to 128-bit   
   addressing.   
      
   Decimal arithmetic is now in IEEE 754, we just have to wait for support   
   for it to become more widespread.   
      
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