12 Apr
2006
12 Apr
'06
13:29
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 9:04 pm, Maura Edeweiss Monville wrote:
Is it possible that on a 32-bit machine the maximum value for a Real number in Tcl language is 10^10 ?
Instinctively I'd saythe number of bits assigned to the representation of a Real number is independent on the machine h/w architecture ... but I'm not familiar with Tcl and may be mistaken ... AFAIK, Tcl does all of its computations as doubles, and a double on a 32-bit or 64-bit system is 64-bits. Additionally, AFAIK, Tcl stores its variables as strings.
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Jerry Feldman