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From: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: High speed garbage
Message-ID: <14164@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 12 Sep 88 06:28:10 GMT
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In-reply-to: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)

In article <379@quintus.UUCP>, ok@quintus (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>It is time we told the architects that high-speed garbage is garbage.
>It is important to know whether a computation has delivered correct
>results.

Hear hear!

I'm sick of compilers and libraries that think they know mathematics
better than me: everything from mod(-1,6) equalling -1 instead of 5,
to the Unix sqrt and log functions taking negative arguments.

[By the way: do some of you think it's time for comp.lang.c-vs-fortran?
This topic comes up endlessly in both groups.]

ucbvax!garnet!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720