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What is the point of 80 bit reals?

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What is the point of 80 bit reals?

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More precision enables more accurate floating point computations to be done, especially when adding together large numbers of small real numbers. Prof. Kahan, who designed the Intel floating point unit, has an eloquent paper on the subject.

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