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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Compilers and efficiency
Message-ID: <4475.28219510@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 3 May 91 21:51:28 GMT
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In article <4474.28219270@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>, I said:
> 
> Could we have realized in hardware a number system that does give us
> a commutative addition?
> 
after giving the example that shows floating point arithmetic is
not associative.  But the fix for the algorithm is to sort the
input data - doesn't that suggest the word "commutative" to you, too?

I'm still
> dan herrick
> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com