Newsgroups: comp.arch
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: IEEE floating point
Message-ID: <1991May29.163253.12357@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 16:32:53 GMT
References: <9105290600.AA28145@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <9105290600.AA28145@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> jbs@WATSON.IBM.COM writes:
>        I checked the Goldberg reference.  He states in effect the pur-
>pose of his paper is to explain IEEE floating point not defend it.

Did you read the paper, or just the introduction?  He does a fairly good
job of justifying the various decisions as he goes.
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