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==Implementations==
Octuple precision is rarely implemented 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>{{cite web | url=http://images.apple.com/ca/acg/pdf/oct3a.pdf | title=Octuple-precision floating point on Apple G4 | author1=R. Crandall | author2=J. Papadopoulos | date=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.
=== Hardware support ===
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