Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!gatech!hubcap!steve
From: steve@hubcap.UUCP ("Steve" Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Round-off
Message-ID: <853@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 18:22:33 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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> Didn't some models of the /360 truncate rather than rounding, or fail
> to use guard digits, or something of that sort?  None of the numerical
> analysis courses I ever took told me that (x*2)/2 had to equal x.
 
 We tell 'em: it's ok to balance your checkbook on the 370. :-)
-- 
Steve (really "D. E.") Stevenson           steve@hubcap.clemson.edu
Department of Computer Science,            (803)656-5880.mabell
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906