- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:25:38 +0100
- To: Rob Shearer <rob.shearer@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Boris Motik" <boris.motik@comlab.ox.ac.uk>, "'OWL Working Group WG'" <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
On Jul 10, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Rob Shearer wrote: >> Some machine's don't really have single float hardware, instead >> rounding from double float. > > I'm not sure that's relevant: all machines can mimic single float > (i.e. the double hardware can do single rounding after every > operation). > > I'd be more interested in hearing how big a user base double- > precision floats really have. Are many scientific data sets encoded > using doubles? I will investigate. -Alan > > For the record, I'd wouldn't mind requiring double-precision floats > but only 32-bit integers. Minimal implementations of such a spec > could use a single homogeneous representation for numbers in that > case. > > -rob >
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