Real48 Type
The Real48
type exists for backward compatibility
with Turbo Pascal. It defines a 6-byte floating-point type.
Real48
values must be converted to
Extended
before using them in any computations, so
they are slower than using Double
or
Extended
.
The Real48 type has an 8-bit exponent and a 39-bit normalized mantissa. It cannot store denormalized values, infinity, or not-a-number. If the exponent is zero, the number is zero.