On 2026-06-13 12:33, emanuel stiebler wrote:
On 2026-06-11 03:54, Johnny Billquist wrote:But honestly, people who are into crazy specific math issues wouldn't be trying to run things on a VAX to start with. So I do not expect that anyone cares about those last few digits. But of course test software will care, and the point of getting IEEE "compatibility" would be so software works, so I guess we'd have to get that working.We had 128 bit floats on a VAX, so I'm sure somebody running funny things on it :)
40 years ago, sure... Today? I doubt it.
Johnny
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