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From: | mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: trouble compiling c++ |
Date: | 18 Jul 1997 08:10:31 GMT |
Organization: | Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam |
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Message-ID: | <5qn8dn$d00$1@star.cs.vu.nl> |
References: | <199706241043 DOT KAA12868 AT mx2 DOT rmplc DOT co DOT uk> <33B02753 DOT 6FC AT cs DOT com> |
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
John M. Aldrich (fighteer AT cs DOT com) wrote: : Yeah, but how many bits would you need for a floating point variable to : contain 4000 digits of precision? ;) About 13288. ;-) Excluding the bits for the exponent, that is. -- Groeten, Michel. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter \----/==\----/ \ / \ / "You know, Beavis, you need things that suck, \/ \/ to have things that are cool", Butt-Head.
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