Working with the set of real numbers (was: Finding size of Variable)

Wed Feb 12 11:23:40 EST 2014

"Grant Edwards" wrote:
>> Not *any* computer? Not in *any* way? The Python built-in "float"
>> type "works with the set of real numbers", in a way.
>> The only people who think that are people who don't actualy _use_
> floating point types on computers.

FPU parsing the IEEE spec, or?. I didn't quite parse what *you* wrote. 
To paraphrase:
 #include <math.h>
 "there are FP_NORMAL and FP_SUBNORMAL people in the world; 
 those who understand IEEE 754 and those who don't." ..
--gv