From: Brian Candler <lists@...>
Date: 2012-07-07T06:44:31+09:00
Subject: Re: IEEE extended precision float

Anton Hornquist wrote in post #1067670:
> I need to read and write an 80 bit IEEE extended precision float from
> and to AIFF files.

What do you want to read it into? A ruby Float is just a double, you 
will lose precision. Is that acceptable, or do you want to read into a 
BigDecimal, or something else?

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