Double Precision on PC

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sat Mar 30 14:17:01 EST 2002


On Saturday, March 30, 2002, at 11:19 AM, Richard Harrison wrote:

> What about double precision on the PC side?

On W2K, Revolution 1.1.1 B2, double precision seems to be used.  
That is an 8-byte floating point representing about 15 digits.  My 
compiler reference mentions long double (10 bytes representing 
about 19 digits).  I think there is an extended (16 bytes?).

Dar Scott





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