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Re:C++ proposal: There are 8 bits in a byte by ndesaulniers on Friday October 18, 2024 @12:37AM (#41876377)
Are you mixing up long double with float?
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Re:C++ proposal: There are 8 bits in a byte by josefx on Friday October 18, 2024 @03:44AM (#41877176)
Old Intel CPUs only had long double, 32 bit and 64 bit floats were a compiler hack on top of the 80 bit floating point stack.
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