[Cfp-interest 1814] Re: Exact subnormal results

[David Hough CFP]

> I think there was a 44-bit IEEE floating point format

This might be "single extended" but I don't recall hearing of any
implementations.

> Aren't there some DSP's with 40-bit not-quite IEEE-754 floating point 
> still being produced.

Could be, but word sizes that are not powers of two seem to 
have gone out of style,
since for most big number crunching, memory traffic is the dominant factor
in execution time, and there seems to be little penalty for using a full 
64 bits vs using 33-63 bits.