Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: IBM 360 float Message-ID: <4127@alice.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 11:58:16 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.4127 Posted: Sun Aug 11 11:58:16 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 20:17:27 EDT References: <2588@sun.uucp> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 9 > 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. Can someone tell me how to get a copy?