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		ndesaulniers 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte Are you mixing up long double with float?

josefx 9 months ago [–]

Old Intel CPUs only had long double, 32 bit and 64 bit floats were a compiler hack on top of the 80 bit floating point stack.

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