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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
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Subject: Re: Numerical Computation Newsgroup needed?
Message-ID: <644@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 88 10:52:51 GMT
References: <37941@sun.uucp> <21238@linus.UUCP>
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Keywords: comp.numeric comp.scientific comp.floating

In article <21238@linus.UUCP>, bs@linus.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
> 
> I estimate I'd post 10-12 articles/yr as original, and reply to a
> fair number of others.
> 
> How about sci.math.numeric?
> 
> Bob Silverman

I agree with Bob on this subject.  I would also like to point out that
the commonly held viewpoint that scientific computations are strictly
floating point is totally fallacious.  Some of the procedures I have
produced make heavy use of bit boolean operations (&, or, ~, and &~)
as well as shift operations.  I also use integer overflow.

-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (ARPA or UUCP) or hrubin@purccvm.bitnet