On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 03:24:35 +0100, Marcin Dalecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2005-03-08, at 02:55, Ronny Peine wrote: > > > Maybe i found something: > > > > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/ieee754.ps > > page 9 says: > > Lot's of opinions few hard arguments... I see there. > I wouldn't consider the above mentioned paper authoritative in any way.
I guess just because someone wrote _the_ standard programs for testing the quality of floating point support in C and Fortran, and has got a ACM Turing Award for: "For his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis. One of the foremost experts on floating-point computations. Kahan has dedicated himself to 'making the world safe for numerical computations.'" doesn't mean you should actually pay attention to anything they have to say on the subject.
