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From: meissner@rtp47.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: IBM 360 float
Message-ID: <136@rtp47.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 11:04:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 11:04:13 1985
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John Gilmore <2588@sun.uucp> writes:
>
> Just to put things in perspective, floating point has been done wrong in 
> many ways, by many people.  (1/3 == 9/27 on a 370, and not every
> manufacturer can make that claim!)  This is why it's so valuable to have
> the IEEE 754 standard -- it doesn't have these anomalies, it DOES have 
> valuable facilities lacking in other designs, and you can tell when you've
> implemented it right.  There's a test suite (driver plus about 20,000 test
> cases) developed by the 754 designers and available from Berkeley.
>
How does one get a hold of this test suite?

	Michael Meissner
	Data General
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