Octuple-precision floating-point format: Difference between revisions

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=== Hardware support ===

There is little to no hardware support for it. Octuple-precision arithmetic is too impractical for most commercial uses of it, making implementation of it very rare (if any).

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==Processing Statistics==

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¹statistical extrapolation since it would take 1/8 of the entire memory just to store 1 binary256 numeral, making it compleately impractical

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== See also ==

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== References ==

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==See Alsoalso==

* Evidence that binary256 exists: [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5346785&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D5346785]]

* Implementation of Octuple-precision floating-point format: [[https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/]] and [[https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Setting-Precision.html]]

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