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diff --git a/numpy/doc/basics.py b/numpy/doc/basics.py index 4943aa227..d0d384a62 100644 --- a/numpy/doc/basics.py +++ b/numpy/doc/basics.py @@ -155,11 +155,11 @@ with 80-bit precision, and while most C compilers provide this as their ``long double`` identical to ``double`` (64 bits). NumPy makes the compiler's ``long double`` available as ``np.longdouble`` (and ``np.clongdouble`` for the complex numbers). You can find out what your -numpy provides with``np.finfo(np.longdouble)``. +numpy provides with ``np.finfo(np.longdouble)``. NumPy does not provide a dtype with more precision than C ``long double``\s; in particular, the 128-bit IEEE quad precision -data type (FORTRAN's ``REAL*16``) is not available. +data type (FORTRAN's ``REAL*16``\) is not available. For efficient memory alignment, ``np.longdouble`` is usually stored padded with zero bits, either to 96 or 128 bits. Which is more efficient |