On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:34:19 -0800, John Nagle wrote: > (The best coverage of this whole topic was the Apple Numerics Manual > for the original Mac. Apple hired the floating point expert from > Berkeley to get this right. Then Apple went from the M68xxx series to > the IBM PowerPC, and 80-bit floats to 64-bit floats, breaking all the > engineering applications, most of which were never ported to the > PowerPC.)
I second John's recommendation re the Apple Numerics Manual. Even if the Apple specific stuff is obsolete, it's a great resource for understanding floating point issues. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
