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.