Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!ctrsol!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!sdsu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!mahendo!poseur!earle From: earle@poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle - Sun JPL on-site Software Support) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Length of single-precision FORTRAN floating point on Univac 1108/1109 Message-ID: <504@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 10 Aug 89 00:39:54 GMT Sender: news@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov Reply-To: earle@poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle - Sun JPL on-site Software Support) Followup-To: poster Organization: Sun Microsystems - JPL on-site Software Support Lines: 14 Does anyone with a long memory know how many bits are in a single-precision (FORTRAN style) floating point number on a Univac 1108 (or 1109) model? I believe that an integer is 36 bits, but have no idea how big the floating point precision sizes are. Thanks in advance, -- Greg Earle Sun Microsystems, Inc. - JPL on-site Software Support earle@poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV (direct) earle@Sun.COM (indirect)