Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:26:18 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Timofei V. Bondarenko" <tim AT ipi DOT ac DOT ru>
cc: "Alfredo J. Cole" <ajc AT acyc DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Round off errors
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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Timofei V. Bondarenko wrote:

> Yes, it is because type 'float' contains only 20bit mantisse.

No, it's 24 bits, see the definition of FLT_MANT_DIG in <float.h> header 
file.