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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
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Posted: Sun Aug 11 11:58:16 1985
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> 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?