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Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 10:58:22 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Long Doubles and Non-uniform Random Numbers
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> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 12:18:03 -0700
> From: roon8505 AT uidaho DOT edu
> 
> When I run, (using long doubles) the values- apparently- get re-set to zero
>  as soon as they fall below ~ 1e-324. I thought that long doubles
>  could handle much smaller values than this- am I missing
>  something? 

Something's wrong with your program; I suspect that your program
either converts long double numbers to doubles, or maybe prints them
as doubles.

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