floating point representation in IC

From: Chris Meudec <MEUDECC_at_ITCARLOW.IE>
Date: Fri 19 Nov 2004 09:55:30 AM GMT
Message-ID: <419DC311.16690.10594D@ITCARLOW.IE>
Hi all,
just a few questions regarding the underlying implementation of the IC 
library.

1 Does its implementation respects IEEE-754 (the standard for 
floating point processing) ? Both in terms of representation of a 
floating point number and during the propagation of the bounds (also 
which type of rounding is used?) Or how close is it to it? The standard 
documentaion is a bit vague on these finer points. Where can we get 
more details?

2 If IC uses double binary floating-point numbers by default, can we 
switch to a single floating-point number representation?

Once again,
thanking you.

Chris
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