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From: jon@boulder.UUCP (Jon Corbet)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI C suggestions (woops)
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Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 11:18:04 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 16 11:18:04 1984
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Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Keywords: double precision, coffee

>> As long as we are discussing improvements to the language, I would
>> like to suggest a couple:
>> 
>> (1)	Get rid of that requirement that all floating point arithmetic
>> 	be done in floating point. ... 
>
>I presume you meant "done in double precision", not "done in floating
>point";

Yes, I certainly meant double precision.  This is what happens when I
do my netnews interaction before that all-important first cup of coffee
has entered my bloodstream :-)

Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility
{seismo|hplabs}!hao!boulder!jon