Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!convex!texsun!newstop!exodus!exodus-bb!khb From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman fpgroup) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: bizarre instructions Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 18:26:47 GMT References: <15485@lanl.gov> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun MegaSystems Lines: 14 In-reply-to: jlg@lanl.gov's message of 22 Feb 91 15:46:14 GMT In article <15485@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes: approximation you use). Any user who needs trig functions should be _expected_ to know that PI is not a rational number and that floating Tell that to a spreadsheet user. It is impossible to legislate what people _will_ expect. We can pontificate on what they should, but unless we are working in the education field we can't expect it work. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keith H. Bierman kbierman@Eng.Sun.COM | khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM SMI 2550 Garcia 12-33 | (415 336 2648) Mountain View, CA 94043 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com