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From: pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: benchmark for evaluating extended precision
Keywords: extended precision,multiply,benchmark,arithmetic
Message-ID: <2857@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 90 02:08:36 GMT
References: <3989@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <119858@linus.mitre.org>
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208
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In article <119858@linus.mitre.org>, bs@linus.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
> ......... Suppose A > B and A > C. How would one compute
> BC/A EXACTLY without 64 bit support? .....
> 
   ... and if A = PI, and B = sq.rt. of 2, how would one calculate BC/A
       EXACTLY ?

> "You can lead a horse's ass to knowledge, but you can't make him think"

   ... obviously, we are all (all the rest of us, anyway) horses' asses....

    greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny