What is the minimum precision allowed for floats.

[Sisyphus]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Kronander" <joekr552 at student.liu.se>
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> But when you point me to the mpfr library I am a bit confused.
> I don't see how mpfr should work for "exactly" 6 bits etc. are you sure it
> works?

The mpfr documentation states:

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The precision can be any integer between MPFR_PREC_MIN and MPFR_PREC_MAX. In
the current implementation, MPFR_PREC_MIN is equal to 2.
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If it doesn't work for 6 bits, then you've found a bug (unless MPFR_PREC_MAX
happens to be less than 6 :-)

Cheers,
Rob