Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: where can I get a copy of the IEEE floating point standards? Message-ID: <3385@phri.UUCP> Date: 15 Jul 88 14:33:51 GMT References: <3259@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 38 jsm@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John Scott McCauley Jr.) writes: > I am trying to get a copy of the IEEE floating point standards. What you want (I think) is "ANSI/IEEE Std 754-1985: IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic". It available from the IEEE: IEEE Service Center 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08854 (201) 981-0060 When we ordered it, it was $8.50. It's short; the whole thing is 17 pages, including the index, appendix, title page, etc. Another useful address to have for ordering standards is: American National Standards Institute 1430 Broadway New York, NY 10018 Attn: sales > is there a program that tests how close a floating point package sticks > to the standard? You might want to read: %A Eugene H. Spafford %A John C. Flaspohler %T A report on the accuracy of some floating point math functions on selected computers: technical report GIT-ICS 85/06 %I Georgia Institute of Technology %C Atlanta, Georgia I would imagine Dave Hough at Sun would be able to point you to some more complete studies of IEEE-754 math packages. -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"