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Your processor probably doesn’t support quad precision floats in hardware unless it’s an IBM mainframe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple-precision_floa
by fanf2 3y ago
Your processor probably doesn’t support quad precision floats in hardware unless it’s an IBM mainframe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple-precision_floating-point_format#Hardware_support https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple-precision_floating...
- aragilar 3y agoPower also supports it, and https://www.raptorcs.com/ https://www.raptorcs.com/ aren't mainframes.
- guenthert 3y agoWhich prompts the question, what is quad precision floating point arithmetic needed for that IBM considered it prudent to implement it in hardware of a mainframe? Who are the customers paying for such? Naively perhaps, I would expect that financial calculations (ought to) rely on fixed-point arithmetic and afaiu simulations of physical systems get away with double precision, if one is careful.
- carlmr 3y ago>afaiu simulations of physical systems get away with double precision, if one is careful. Doesn't this depend very much on the physical system in question. I could imagine that simulating chaotic systems needs a lot of precision. Simulation of n-body problems and others are mentioned [1]. [1] https://www-zeuthen.desy.de/acat05/talks/de_Dinechin.Florent.2/QuadAndMore.pdf https://www-zeuthen.desy.de/acat05/talks/de_Dinechin.Florent...