precision in C++

[asdf]

I want to set the computation precision to quadruple precision, how can
I do it in C++ coding?

Thanks all.

[Victor Bazarov]

asdf wrote:

I want to set the computation precision to quadruple precision, how
can I do it in C++ coding?

You can't, unless your compiler somehow enables that. However, there
are libraries out there implementing arbitrary (or simply extended)
precision floating point calculations. Just look for them on the Web.
They may be slower than possible hardware-provided one, but on many
processors it's the only thing available.

V
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[Ivan Vecerina]

"asdf" <li*********@gmail.comwrote in message
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:I want to set the computation precision to quadruple precision, how can
: I do it in C++ coding?

Its implementation details depend on the platform, but
would the bult-in type "long double" meet your needs ?

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[asdf]

"long double" corresponds to double precision, right?
I want to use quadruple precision instead.

Thanks.

Ivan Vecerina wrote:

"asdf" <li*********@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@i3g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...
:I want to set the computation precision to quadruple precision, how can
: I do it in C++ coding?

Its implementation details depend on the platform, but
would the bult-in type "long double" meet your needs ?

hth -Ivan
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[Paulo Matos]

asdf wrote:

"long double" corresponds to double precision, right?
I want to use quadruple precision instead.

Thanks.

You're asking for too much then. Check GMP mpf_t.

Cheers,

Paulo Matos

[Paulo Matos]

Paulo Matos wrote:

asdf wrote:

"long double" corresponds to double precision, right?
I want to use quadruple precision instead.

Thanks.

You're asking for too much then. Check GMP mpf_t.

Let me add GMP as a C++ interface, the type mpf_t corresponds to the
class mpf_class (I think)!

Cheers,

Paulo Matos

[Geo]

asdf wrote:

"long double" corresponds to double precision, right?
I want to use quadruple precision instead.

No I wouldn't think so,

float - sinlge precision
double - double precision (surprisingly!!!)
long double - greater than double precision

[Jerry Coffin]

In article <11**********************@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
[e-mail] says...

>
asdf wrote:

"long double" corresponds to double precision, right?
I want to use quadruple precision instead.

No I wouldn't think so,

float - sinlge precision
double - double precision (surprisingly!!!)
long double - greater than double precision

Not really. More accurately, long double is "greater than or equal to
double precision" -- there's no requirement that its precision is
actually greater, and on some widely used implementations (e.g. VC++
2.0 and above) the precision of double and long double is the same.

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[Victor Bazarov]

Jerry Coffin wrote:

In article <11**********************@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>,
[e-mail] says...

>>
asdf wrote:

>>"long double" corresponds to double precision, right?
I want to use quadruple precision instead.

No I wouldn't think so,

float - sinlge precision
double - double precision (surprisingly!!!)
long double - greater than double precision

Not really. More accurately, long double is "greater than or equal to
double precision" -- there's no requirement that its precision is
actually greater, and on some widely used implementations (e.g. VC++
2.0 and above) the precision of double and long double is the same.

....and on some implementations it's not *much* greater. For example, IIRC,
Borland made use of 'long double' in 10-byte representation, which only
gives you 19 digits of precision (mere 3 more than 'double'), although it
does have a greater range. See "extended double" IEEE 754 format (IIRC).

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asdf wrote:

"long double" corresponds

See below.

Brian

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