Re: Making Lemonade (Floating-point format changes)

In article <abe04jhkngt2uun1e7ict8vmf1fq8p7rnm@4ax.com>,
quadibloc@servername.invalid (John Savard) wrote:

I'm not really sure such floating-pont precision is useful, but I
do remember some people telling me that higher float precision is
indeed something to be desired.

I would be in favour of 128-bit being available. I'm not sure my field
has need for 256- or 512-bit, but that doesn't mean that nobody has.

John