From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M)
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Subject: Re: trouble compiling c++
Date: 18 Jul 1997 08:10:31 GMT
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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.
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