Re: SRFI-77 with more than one flonum representation

[Bradley Lucier <lucier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 3, 2006, at 4:17 PM, William D Clinger wrote:

> Brad Lucier wrote:
> > I presume you're talking about '387 style arithmetic with 80-bit
> > extended real registers. This architecture has no single-precision or
> > double-precision operations at all, all operations act on extended-
> > precision (80-bit) values in extended-precision registers; so it has
> > *no* "implementation of double precision arithmetic".  The '387 is a
> > correct implementation of IEEE 754 arithmetic,
>
> I presume you mean IEEE 854 arithmetic.

754 is for binary arithmetic; 854 is for other bases (typically  
decimal).

Brad