Why does this not give a BFLOAT as an answer?



You are right  I was doing this from Octave and I forgot to include the 
fpprec:100; command.
This is fun!!!!!!
Doug Stewart
Richard Fateman wrote:

> It is a bfloat, precision set to bfprec of 14 decimal digits, 
> approximately.
>
> Doug Stewart wrote:
>
>> (%i4) 
>> BFLOAT(1.960784313725490196078431372549019607843137254901960784313725490196078431372549019607843137254901961B-2)      
>> * 
>> BFLOAT(1.886792452830188679245283018867924528301886792452830188679245283018867924528301886792452830188679245B-2); 
>>
>>
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