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From: solworth@cornell.UUCP (Jon Solworth)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.68k,net.micro.16k
Subject: Re: Floating Point Comparisons
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Date: Sat, 13-Apr-85 18:43:25 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 13 18:43:25 1985
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Summary: 


	The NS16XXX times for longer addition time than multiplication are
not unreasonable from the scientific programmer point of view.  Multiplies
vastly outnumber adds in scientific code.

Jon A. Solworth
Cornell University