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- From: pausch@electra.saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c.moderated
- Subject: Re: Are there std. Floating Pt. Exts.?
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 06:25:25 -0600
- Organization: Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening
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- In article <4f3cu2$s1h@solutions.solon.com>,
- Tim DeBenedictis <timmyd@netcom.com> wrote:
-
- > * range of numerical programming. It is modeled after the Floating-Point *
- > * C Extensions (FPCE) proposed technical draft of the Numerical C *
- > * Extensions Group's requirements (NCEG / X3J11.1). *
- >
- > This leads me to believe that there -is- actually a somewhat standard set
- > of floating-point extensions. Does anybody know where I could obtain the
- > standard?
-
- From ANSI I suppose -- ask for X3J11.1, the NCEG extension to
- Standard C. Be prepared that it will cost some money though
- -- those standards aren't particularly cheap.
-
- You probably won't be able to find this on the net somewhere. ANSI keeps
- a copyright on these standards, and usually doesn't admit them being
- distributed freely in electronic form.
-
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