On 2005-03-08, at 04:07, David Starner wrote:
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.
Are we a bit too obedient today? Look I was talking about the paper presented
above not about the author there of.
