Precision Tail-off?
Michael Torrie
torriem at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 21:54:29 EST 2023
On 2/17/23 15:03, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Every fall, the groups were again full of a new crop of people who had
> just discovered all sorts of bugs in the way <software/hardware>
> implemented floating point, and pointing them to a nicely written
> document that explained it never did any good.
But to be fair, Goldberg's article is pretty obtuse and formal for most
people, even programmers. I don't need lots of formal proofs as he
shows. Just a summary is sufficient I'd think. Although I've been
programming for many years, I have no idea what he means with most of
the notation in that paper.
Although I have a vague notion of what's going on, as my last post
shows, I don't know any of the right terminology.
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