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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: "wobble" in Floating Point (LONG) (was Re: comp_t)
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Date: 20 May 91 20:10:12 GMT
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In article <9105180923.aa03879@art-sy.detroit.mi.us> chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us (j chapman flack) writes:
  [ on the use of a base-8 radix ]
> I just found the information above in David Goldberg, "What Every Computer
> Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" in the March 1991
> _ACM Computing Surveys_.  Lots of other good stuff in there too.

Naturally, you can find the same information in Knuth, exercise 4.2.4-6.
Lots of other good stuff in there too.

---Dan