Re: [xml-dev] bohemians, gentry

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Eric van der Vlist <>
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Re: [xml-dev] bohemians, gentry
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 21:03, Rich Salz wrote:
> > Well, there's a problem you will encounter earlier. Float and double are 
> > restricted to 32 and 64 bits respectively:
> 
> Only in their value space, not their lexical space.

And that's a good thing, otherwise we would have had to give up our
"scientific" notation to write them as powers of 2!

Eric
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