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		The speed of Microsoft's BASIC floating point routines (conman.org)
		7 points by ingve on March 2, 2024 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

gus_massa on March 2, 2024 [–]

It was a weird time. I remeber that in some version you could choice to compile using the standard IEEE 754 numbers or their propietary floating point version. More details (linked in the article) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Binary_Format

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