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  Re: Random thoughts about povray and xml  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 22 Mar 2004 14:40:31
Message: <405f412f$1@news.povray.org>
In article <cjameshuff-FC25CE.17232321032004@news.povray.org> , Christopher
James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>  wrote:

> Right, but there's no built-in mechanism for handling this. If you want
> to use 128-bit IEEE754 floats, you have to write IEEE754 floats...

I am not sure what this is supposed to say at all.  Nothing says that "
double " cannot be a 128 bit IEEE 754 float.  In fact, certain platforms do
currently offer 128 bit IEEE 754 floats as "long double".

    Thorsten

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