R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:🧉 on Nostr: Reading through "Introducing Go," by Caleb Doxsey. I'm surprised that Go only ...
Reading through "Introducing Go," by Caleb Doxsey.
I'm surprised that Go only supports 32 and 64-bit floats. I remember in the olden days, computers (without FPUs) had *crazy*-huge floating point numbers. I'm guessing if you're going to slog through doing it all in software, you might as well go whole hog.
Oh found it! It was called SANE: Standard Apple Numerics Environment. It supported up to 80 bit floats, and that's on the 6502!!
I'm surprised that Go only supports 32 and 64-bit floats. I remember in the olden days, computers (without FPUs) had *crazy*-huge floating point numbers. I'm guessing if you're going to slog through doing it all in software, you might as well go whole hog.
Oh found it! It was called SANE: Standard Apple Numerics Environment. It supported up to 80 bit floats, and that's on the 6502!!