[Cfp-interest 1853] Re: Negative zero

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 11:30:53 +1100 (AEDT) Damian McGuckin wrote:
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>Out of curiosity, how many chipsets in use today still use an extended IEC60559 format?

I believe that all of Intel x86 chips with its x87 FPU use the 80-bit extended format.


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