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From: Daryle Walker (dwalker07_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-19 22:03:58


On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 10:31 PM, Paul A. Bristow wrote:

> Agreed - but what do we do if NOT is_iec559?
>
> Give up? #error "Can only work with IEEE 754!"
>
> Or choose a massive amount of decimal digits? eg 40?

Why not just use what we're currently doing, use
numeric_limits<>::digits10 and hope that it's accurate enough?

Daryle


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