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From: kenton@abyss.zk3.dec.com (Jeff Kenton OSG/UEG)
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Subject: Re: IBM floating point using logarithms
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Date: 12 Jun 91 01:38:08 GMT
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In article <1991Jun10.171824.10980@solbourne.com> McGuire@solbourne.com (Jim McGuire) writes:
>	"The key to the hybrid computational unit
>	is a new approach to representing logarithms
>	that closely parallels the IEEE P754 32-bit
>	floating-point format."
>
>	"The result is a conversion method simple enough
>	to cast in hardware..."


This reminds me of the early Wang calculators, which used logs internally.

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