quad precision question

[Stu Anderson 425-865-3595]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, R. Baker Kearfott wrote:

> I've not seen "IEEE quad" explicitly defined.  Have I missed it?  
> Would it fall under the IEEE radix-independent standard?

I believe that some people consider the arithmetic with parameters
(2 113 -16381 16384) to be a de facto IEEE quad standard.

--Stu Anderson
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