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- Subject: Re: Pascall Typed Files
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- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Date: 1 Sep 92 19:36:36 GMT
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- In <10270@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine) writes:
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- > Floats do not exist in Turbo Pascal, at least not by that name.
- > The C float type is a the IEEE 4 byte real, which is called a
- > "single" in Turbo Pascal. If you need double precision, then both
- > languages use the IEEE double type.
-
- Well, actually, the default is the IBM Basic 6-byte real; and you can
- change it to use IEEE 4-byte or IEEE 8-byte real.
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