[SoC] Weekly Report for Week 4. gvSIG.

[Hamish]

Luca wrote:
>  * reviewing "IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754)"


If you haven't already, this is very much recommended reading:

"What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" by David Goldberg, 1991

http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html


(I would rename that to "What every Scientist should know ...")


regards,
Hamish