Re: Floating point size
"charles" <instrulab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> How many digits does Delphi 5 use in the floating point routines and in
> the
> doubles and in the reals?
Help | Index | floating-point (real) types.
Doubles and Reals are both floating point types. You may also want to read
http://www.bancoems.com/CompLangPascalDelphiMisc-MiniFAQ.htm#Q3 and
http://www.efg2.com/Lab/Library/Delphi/MathInfo/
.
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- Re: Floating point size
... > How many digits does Delphi 5 use in the floating point routines and in ... > doubles and in the reals? ...
(alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi) - Re: Floating point size
... >How many digits does Delphi 5 use in the floating point routines and in the ... >doubles and in the reals? ... Further to Bruce's good advice, I suggest that you look carefully at ...
(alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi) - Re: Floating point size
... > How many digits does Delphi 5 use in the floating point routines ... > and in the doubles and in the reals? ... I could tell you that the FPU uses 80-bit reals internally throughout, ...
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... 0s with different valency towards infinity; ... but instead some sort of floating point number. ... The reals are sometimes ... algorithms that /do/ halt with the output of a symbol (marks on tape, ...
(sci.math) - Re: Float comparison
... If you exclude NaNs and infinities it is a member of a finite subset of the rationals, which in turn is a subset of the reals. ... Now quote the section of the C standard that states that floating point numbers are reals. ... can tell the exact value stored in that object. ... The intervening calculations were approximations which gave a known acceptable limit on the error of the settings given to the hardware when compared to the theoretical mathematical values the algorithm I had to implement an approximation of. ...
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