[Implemented] Longer floats, please

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 3:12 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by julianbury.

Dear PureBasic Authors,

Please provide 64 bit and 80 bit floats like in C/C++ ...
A "double" is 8 bytes long and is a useful standard.
A "long double" is 10 bytes for high precision or astronomical numbers.
I think these are IEEE standards.
These are required for serious applications
or they would never have been provided.
Even the old 1983 BBC Micro's BBC Basic used 40 bit floats
and its supplimentary "BASIC64" used 64 bit floats.

Julian ^00^

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 7:20 am

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by Rings.

dear julian,

we all hope that from version 4 beginning the compiler can use doubles , quads and more.Fred is on his way, we hope this year.
BTW.
This discussion starts every 2 weeks here now.Please use the Search-feature of this forum about doubles etc.

Its a long way to the top if you wanna .....CodeGuru

BackupUser · Post by **BackupUser** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 1:44 pm

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by julianbury.

Sorry, I will search first in future :-/
Thanks for the good news, though

Julian ^00^