Posted by Andy Hassall on 12/06/05 21:38

On 6 Dec 2005 11:04:51 -0700, yf110@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (Malcolm Dew-Jones)
wrote:

>Computer double size floating point numbers can perform calculations on
>integer _values_ with out integer value errors (exactly like integer
>numbers do).
>
>But the computer double can represent a much larger range of exact integer
>values.

Makes sense - you can go up to 2^53 in an exact form in a double using just
the significand without using the exponent bits.
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