From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-16 16:03:47
At 01:27 PM 11/16/2000 -0700, Greg Colvin wrote:
>... It seems that if
>you provide 1,2,4, and 8 byte signed and unsigned integers and 4 and
>8 byte IEEE floats you have pretty well covered the waterfront.
3 byte signed and unsigned integers are also very useful in practice, I
know from experience. My guess is that 5 and 6 byte formats would also be
really useful for those working with larger data values.
--Beman