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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 14:48:02 -0700
From: Ishpeck <aTedjamulia AT sprynet DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Significant Digits
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On News Groups, people are more than happy
to correct anyone -- even if they haven't
made any mistakes.

Albert Bae wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>    I am making a program that needs high precision because it has to
> numerically integrate a function twice.  I beleive that the double data
> type only gives 7 significant figures.  7 sig. figs. cause a round off
> error that is to large to be acceptable as an output for my program.  I
> was wondering if there was a way of increasing the number of significant
> digits that DJGPP can handle.  If I have made any mistakes in what I
> have said please feel free to correct me.  I appreciate any help that
> you can give.
> 
> Thanks,
> Albert