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From: fpst@hubcap.UUCP (Dennis Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IEEE floating point modes
Message-ID: <253@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 16:23:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: hubcap.253
Posted: Thu Jul  2 16:23:03 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 06:59:38 EDT
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Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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Summary: wrong group

In article <93900007@hcx1>, daver@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes:
> 
> IEEE floating point arithmetic users:
> 
> Of the 4 rounding modes -- nearest, zero, positive infinity, and negative
> infinity -- which one(s) are you most likely to use?  Does the accuracy
> of the numbers influence your decision?  Does the performance of computing
> in one of these modes help sway your opinion? ...

You should check with the numerical people on na-request at stanford.edu
or sci.math on usenet.  They're the folks who use it.

Steve