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[Daniel J Farrell]

Great!

"...Right on the money.."

I'm actually useful   ;0)

Dan


On 8 Feb 2006, at 14:54, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:

> Daniel J Farrell wrote:
>
>   Maybe because long double is hardware specific? i.e. some time is 12
>   bytes long other times its 16. Also, different manufactures divide
>   the number of bytes up differently between exponent and the number
>   part of the floating point.
>
> Right on the money.
>
> Damien Stehle wrote:
>
>   Besides, why does mpz_set_d rounds towards zero and not to the  
> nearest
>   (with the round to even rule)?
>
> Because that's analogous to how double -> int conversions are
> done in C.
>
> -- 
> Torbjörn