Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!pacbell!belltec!jom
From: jom@belltec.UUCP (Jerry Merlaine)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Wafer Scale Floating Point chip
Keywords: silicon frisbee(tm) floating point
Message-ID: <335@belltec.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 89 20:15:12 GMT
Organization: Bell Technologies, Fremont, CA
Lines: 9

If you want to do something useful with wafer scale technology, build
me an IEEE floating point look-up table ROM.  If you're interested,
go look up 'nomography' in a good science library.  It's the science
of building tables of real numbers to avoid calculating functions.
Using number theory manipulations, you can 'pack' values for 
apparently unrelated functions in the same table.

Jerry O. Merlaine
pacbell.com!belltec!jom