Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Sure. I get that. And if you were asking about *fixed-point* arithmetic, 
> we could just take some logarithms and get an answer. But since you said 
> *floating-point*, all we figure out is how many bits the exponent needs. 
> That still leaves the question of how big the mantissa should be. ;-)

Fair dinkum.

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