Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!Cottrell@BRL.ARPA, James From: Cottrell@BRL.ARPA, James Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: More Naughty Bits Message-ID: <575@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 11:49:36 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.575 Posted: Fri Aug 9 11:49:36 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 20:37:41 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 13 /* me ->> What other kind of zero is there? Doug Gwyn -> How about 0.0? How about it? Any pattern of all zeros is considered zero by any *sane* floating point unit. You are perfectly welcome to use insane FPU's, but then you'd have to write an insane C compiler, wouldn't you? What's that you say? They're *all* insane? Got to keep the loonies on the path! jim cottrell@nbs */ ------