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From: steve@groucho.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Inherent imprecision of floating point variables
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Date: 9 Jul 90 02:24:41 GMT
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In <11035@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:

>Granted by the IEEE floating-point standard, for one thing.
>If I am using a system whose vendor claims that it supports
>IEEE floating point, then I can expect that

>	input conversion on a floating point number with an
>	exact representation will be exact;

An earlier discussion of the IEEE standard indicated that it allows an
exactly-representable value to be off by by one bit.

Is this, then, incorrect?

Steve Emmerson        steve@unidata.ucar.edu        ...!ncar!unidata!steve