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From: housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter S. Housel)
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Subject: Re: Floating Number
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Date: 1 Dec 89 22:11:31 GMT
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In article <7164@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, koopman@a.gp (Philip Koopman) writes:
>At a more fundamental level, go to an academic library and
>look up books on "computer arithmetic".

	Here is the bibliography for the Minix-PC Floating point
package documentation. Hopefully someone will find some of these
references of some use. There aren't any FORTH-specific references and
some of them apply only to C or the Minix compiler.  Anyone who wants
to see the code (in 8086 unix-style assembler) and the full
implementation notes can write and ask.

-Peter S. Housel-	housel@ecn.purdue.edu		...!pur-ee!housel

REFERENCES

1. ANSI/IEEE, IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic, ANSI/IEEE
Std. 754-1985. New York, N.Y.: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers, Inc., 1985.

2. ANSI/IEEE, IEEE Standard for Radix-Independent Floating-Point Arithmetic,
ANSI/IEEE Std. 854-1987. New York, N.Y.: The Institute of Eletrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc., 1987.

3. Cody, William J., and William Waite. Software Manual for the
Elementary Functions, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980.

4. Grehan, Rick. "Some Assembly Required: Floating-Point Without a
Coprocessor, Part 1," Byte 13(9): pp. 313-319, Sep. 1988.

5. Grehan, Rick. "Some Assembly Required: Floating-Point Without a
Coprocessor, Part 2," Byte 13(10): pp. 293-298, Oct. 1988.

6.  Hart, John F., E.W. Cheney, et al. Computer Approximations, New York:
Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, 1978.

7. Kernighan, Brian W., Dennis M. Richie. The C Programming Language,
Second Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1988.

7. Knuth, Donald E. The Art of Computer Programming, Second Ed., Vol. 2,
Chapter 4. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1981.

8. Motorola, Inc. MC68881/MC68882 Floating-Point Coprocessor User's Manual,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1987.

9. Ochs, Tom. "Theory and Practice," Computer Language, 6(3): pp. 67-81,
March 1989.

10. Plaugher, P.J. "Computer Arithmetic," Programming on Purpose, Computer
Language, 5(2): pp. 17-23, Feb. 1988.

11.  Plaugher, P.J. "Properties of Floating-point Arithmetic,"
Programming on Purpose, Computer Language, 5(3): pp. 17-22, Mar. 1988.

12. Plaugher, P.J. "Safe Math," Programming on Purpose, Computer
Language, 5(5): pp. 17-21, May 1988.

13. Plaugher, P.J. "Do-it-yourself Math Functions," Programming on Purpose,
Computer Language, 5(6): pp. 17-22, Jun. 1988.

14. Sterbenz, Pat. Floating Point Computation, Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1972.

15. Tanenbaum, Andrew, et al. "A Practical Tool Kit for Making Portable
Compilers," Communications of the ACM 26(9): pp. 654-660, September 1983.

16. Wilson, Pete. "Floating-Point Survival Kit," Byte 13(3): pp. 217-226,
Mar. 1988.

17. Young, David M., Robert Todd Gregory. A Survey of Mumerical Mathematics,
Volume I, Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley, 1972.