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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Floating Point Rounding
Message-ID: <4049@alice.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 11:14:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 11:14:44 1985
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Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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Try using floating-point arithmetic to simulate multiple-precision
fixed-point arithmetic sometime.  It's much harder if the machine rounds.