Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> OK then. So, as long as your results STAY in the FPU and you keep on reusing 
> them, you can keep an improved acuracy. But, as soon as you need to put your 
> results anywhere else, you fall back to 64 bits acuracy.

  Not really. You can store the numbers in memory using the 80-bit
accuracy. In C/C++ you can usually do that with the 'long double' type.

  I don't know, however, if there's a speed penalty in storing/reading
memory in units larger than 64 bits...

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