Re: [Gm2] complex types

[Michael Lambert]

Hi Andreas,

On 15 Dec 2008, at 19:36, Andreas Fischlin wrote:

> Tricky business. Let me state a couple of things:
>
> 1) IEEE 754 floating point is only defined for single (32) and  
> double precision (64) reals.
> 2) 128 bit long reals are not abundantly available and indeed, there  
> might be performance penalties for using it

I had thought there were just 32- and 64-bit reals, too.  However  
today I ran across IEEE 754-2008 which also defines a 128-bit real.  I  
agree--they probably aren't widely implemented.

Michael