what happens when "real" == "double"

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Benjamin Shropshire schrieb am 2007-01-29:
> real is defined as the largest hardware supported FP type. How should a program 
> determine if real provides more precision than double?

Depending of what exactly "precision" is for you:

(real.dig > double.dig)
or 
(real.epsilon < double.epsilon)

Thomas


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