[Python-Dev] Python on non IEEE-754 platforms: plea for information.

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Sat Feb 2 04:21:29 CET 2008


On Feb 1, 2008 8:04 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:

> I spoke to Mikko Ohtamaa (Moo-- on #pys60) and he gave me the name of a
> Nokia developer and this link
> http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=97263. I
> already contacted the developer and asked him to reply here.
>

Thank you:  a very useful thread.  From what little information I'm turning
up on Google, it looks as though most of these devices---if they support
floating-point at all---provide some reasonably close approximation to IEEE
754 floats (possibly emulated in software).
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