Python fails on math

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:26:05 -0800, John Nagle wrote:

> The IEEE 754 compliant FPU on most machines today, though, has an 80-bit
> internal representation.  If you do a sequence of operations that retain
> all the intermediate results in the FPU registers, you get 16 more bits
> of precision than if you store after each operation.

That's a big if though. Which languages support such a thing? C doubles 
are 64 bit, same as Python.


-- 
Steven