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Line 63: ==Implementations== Octuple precision is rarely ~~if ever~~ implemented ~~in to software~~ since usage of it is extremely rare. [[Apple Inc.]] had an implementation of addition, subtraction and multiplication of octuple-precision numbers with a 224-bit [[two's complement]] significand and a 32-bit exponent.<ref>[http://images.apple.com/ca/acg/pdf/oct3a.pdf Octuple-precision floating point on Apple G4], 8 May 2002</ref> One can use general [[arbitrary-precision arithmetic]] libraries to obtain octuple (or higher) precision, but specialized octuple-precision implementations may achieve higher performance. ===Computer-language support===

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