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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: random numbers,vaxes, and unix
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Date: Sat, 25-Jul-87 17:43:37 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 25 17:43:37 1987
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In article <8472@brl-adm.ARPA> jfjr@mitre-bedford.arpa (Freedman) writes:
>I had to make some adjustment because the floating point format
>(IEEE) described in the article did not quite match the format used
>in the Vax. Does that problem still exist?

As in `did the Vax change its floating point format'?  Of course not;
Vax F-floating is the same as always.

>it should be easy to do in C but will I stumble on the fact that C
>does its real number computations in double?

Probably not, althought that depends on the nature of your `glue', I
suppose.

>I am running on a Vax 8600 (Ultrix)

Then see `man random'.
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