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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The *ART* of Computer Programming
Message-ID: <1990Mar13.014249.10625@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 90 01:42:49 GMT
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In article <1990Mar12.102407.9956@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>Sure there is, consider a program which generated the tables used for
>interpolating sin and other trignometric functions in a math library.
What if you get a new box that has a diffrent FP format?  Or a 128 bit
doubble?  Then you want to run it again to get more accurcy...
-- 
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      "The dyslexic porgramer"                  - Kevin Lockwood
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