Hi Hamish,<br><br>thank you very much for the link! <br>It's pretty interesting and useful for me!<br><br>Thanks again, <br>all the best,<br>Luca<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/6/15 Hamish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hamish_b@yahoo.com">hamish_b@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Luca wrote:<br>
> * reviewing "IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754)"<br>
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If you haven't already, this is very much recommended reading:<br>
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"What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" by David Goldberg, 1991<br>
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<a href="http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html" target="_blank">http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html</a><br>
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(I would rename that to "What every Scientist should know ...")<br>
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regards,<br>
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