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| -rw-r--r-- | numpy/doc/basics.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/numpy/doc/basics.py b/numpy/doc/basics.py index d0d384a62..4d3ab046e 100644 --- a/numpy/doc/basics.py +++ b/numpy/doc/basics.py @@ -158,8 +158,8 @@ compiler's ``long double`` available as ``np.longdouble`` (and 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. +``long double``\\s; in particular, the 128-bit IEEE quad precision +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 |