[LEAPSECS] [time-nuts] Leap Quirks

[Tony Finch]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>

> The proper thing for the future is either a "int128_t" 64.64

> fixedpoint time representation or a double ditto.


Do you mean double as in the C type? Which is surely too small - you want
quad-precision FP or perhaps "double double" (paired doubles to get 112
bits of mantissa).

Or do you mean 256 bits of precision, in which case, boggle!

Tony.
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