 types.
     In practice, these types are usually implementations of
     <ACRONYM
CLASS="ACRONYM"
>IEEE</ACRONYM
> Standard 754 for Binary Floating-Point
     Arithmetic (single and double precision, respectively), to the
     extent that the underlying processor, operating system, and
     compiler support it.
    </P
><P
>     Inexact means that some values cannot be converted exactly to the
     internal format and are stored as approximations, so that storing
     and retrieving a value might show slig