Thanks.

> It would be an unusual choice since __float80 is padded to 16 bytes, the same size as the also-supported IEEE quad.

Ouch! What a waste.

OTOH FP80 with a mantissa of 64bit would solve syphilis perceived "weirdness" that rounding errors are suddenly 11 bits when the number range ob 64b integers is exceeded and numbers are coerced into FP64.

FWIW: JavaScripts solution is to only express integers in FP64 doubles. (at least officially)

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re^10: Introspection into floats/NV by LanX
in thread Introspection into floats/NV by LanX

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