Subj : Re: Weird Math
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From : Jens Thiele
Date : Thu Sep 16 2004 12:38 pm

A nice paper with all the details about the topic:

http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html:

"What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmeti=
c

Note =96 This appendix is an edited reprint of the paper What Every
Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic, by David
Goldberg, published in the March, 1991 issue of Computing Surveys.
Copyright 1991, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., reprinted by
permission."


Note there is a second section / comment on the paper:
http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html#3098:

"Differences Among IEEE 754 Implementations

Note =96 This section is not part of the published paper. It has been
added to clarify certain points and correct possible misconceptions
about the IEEE standard that the reader might infer from the paper. This
material was not written by David Goldberg, but it appears here with his
permission."

Jens

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