Here's a challenge for floating point lovers.
The Grey Wolf
greywolf at unisoft.UUCP
Tue Jan 29 10:47:11 AEST 1991
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(Apologies for the apparent waste of bandwidth...)
Doug, I can't find another host besides "gould" who can talk to you
to send mail, so...
In article <14993 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>
>(I'm trying to resist my usual slam at IEEE floating point.)
>
How many different floating point formats are there out there? I'm
aware of IEEE and VAX. Are there any others, and what are the pros and
cons?
I can only assume that somehow IEEE is drain-bamaged; whether by loss of
precision or what, I don't know.
--
thought: I ain't so damb dumn!
war: Invalid argument
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