From: utzoo!decvax!cca!obrien@Rand-Unix@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: please fix floating point in the c compilers!
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3288
Posted: Wed Sep 15 16:17:37 1982
Received: Thu Sep 16 02:05:32 1982

Date: Monday, 13 Sep 1982 10:44-PDT
Changes in the results of numerical calculations as a result of
changing the way float and double work might, in fact, be pretty minor
compared to the possibility of errors in the math routines.  A recent
Science News article points out that the math libraries on many machines
(and calculators) are grossly in error.

	There's a professor at Berkeley busy rewriting the C library math
functions to conform to the IEEE standard.