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In article <14238@lambda.UUCP> jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:

   That's rather a broad claim.  Seems to me that the only people qualified
   to determine whether quad precision is needed are the folks who

Agreed. The orignal poster only provided dynamic range requirement
information, so I thought the claim was valid.

It is quite possible that a given application can require, say, 100
decimal digits but a narrow exponential range. Had that been the
question, I would have suggested a different answer ;>

   need it - the users.  On the Cray _single_ precision floats are 64-bits
   (8-bytes) long.  So, complex*16 is the _single_ precision complex type
   on Cray hardware.  Some extended precision beyond that is often needed.

True. And on the old Cyber machines words were 60-bits, so *Nbytes
isn't the most helpful notation.

Sorry for any confusion implied or caused.
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