Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
: Because it's more accurate.  There are quite a lot of situations where
: single precision would not suffice.  

  Also, with current FPU's, using double precision numbers is as fast as
using single precision, so the extra accuracy is got for free.

-- 
char*i="b[7FK@`3NB6>B:b3O6>:B:b3O6><`3:;8:6f733:>::b?7B>:>^B>C73;S1";
main(_,c,m){for(m=32;c=*i++-49;c&m?puts(""):m)for(_=(
c/4)&7;putchar(m),_--?m:(_=(1<<(c&3))-1,(m^=3)&3););}    /*- Warp -*/

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