[Numpy-discussion] float128 in fact float80

Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljebotn at astro.uio.no
Mon Oct 17 04:20:06 EDT 2011


On 10/17/2011 03:22 AM, Charles R Harris wrote:
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>
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com
> <mailto:njs at pobox.com>> wrote:
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>     The solution is just to call it 'longdouble', which clearly
>     communicates 'this does some quirky thing that depends on your C
>     compiler and architecture'.
>
>
> Well, I don't know. If someone is unfamiliar with floats I would expect
> they would post a complaint about bugs if a file of longdouble type
> written on a 32 bit system couldn't be read on a 64 bit system. It might
> be better to somehow combine both the ieee type and the storage alignment.

np.float80_96
np.float80_128


?

Dag Sverre



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