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From: hutchson@convexc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Round-off
Message-ID: <63900010@convexc>
Date: 11 Jan 88 16:14:00 GMT
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Nf-From: convexc.UUCP!hutchson    Jan 11 10:14:00 1988


An example of the sort of behavior that makes numerical analysists run
screaming from hexadecimal floating point:
(a+b)/2 is NOT always in the closed interval [a,b]!