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From: markb@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Mark Beyer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IEEE floating point modes
Message-ID: <221@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 13:01:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  2 13:01:54 1987
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In article <93900007@hcx1>, daver@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes:
> Of the 4 rounding modes -- nearest, zero, positive infinity, and negative
> infinity -- which one(s) are you most likely to use?  

The compilers and runtimes for the 80387 and Weitek 1167 that I've seen
use 'nearest' rounding for floating point.  Integers are rounded towards
zero.