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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Accuracy figures of mathematics intrinsics in FORTRAN
Message-ID: <5216@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 12 Apr 91 06:29:42 GMT
References: <15286@ganymede.inmos.co.uk>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <15286@ganymede.inmos.co.uk>, steveh@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Steven Huggins) writes:
>     I notice that both Sun and VAX do not give accuracy figures in the
> manuals for their mathematics intrinsics in FORTRAN.

It's been a while since I had my hands on a Sun "Floating Point Programmers'
Guide", but it was my impression that they _did_ report the quality of their
intrinsics.  That manual is certainly where I learned about the ELEFUNT test
suite.  With ELEFUNT, you don't need to trust the vendor.  (Sun were right to
be confident.)

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