Re: IEEE754 standard

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Everett M. Greene) wrote:
> David W. Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Julian V. Noble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > "Everett M. Greene" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know of a conveniently-available description
> > > > or discussion of implementation of operations on IEEE754-
> > > > conformant values?  I'm interested in the rationale for
> > > > handling such things as infinity/infinity (=1?),
> > > > infinity-infinity (=0?), and, my favorite, zero/zero.
> > >
> > > Look up "What every computer scientist should know about floating
> > > point arithmetic" by D. Goldberg. It exists in *.pdf form various
> > > places around the net. Read Section 2 (p. 15 ff).
> >
> > Yes, that's exactly what I was going to recommend.
> >
> > Goldberg, D. "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About
> > Floating-Point Arithmetic." ACM Comput. Surv. 23, 5-48, March 1991.
> > <http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html>
> >
> > Look particularly at Subsection 2.2 Special Quantities (and even more
> > particularly at pp. 21-22).
>
> I tried the URL above.  Mr. Goldberg should be taken out and
> shot!  He put the entire paper on one Web page!

Sorry. I just gave the link I already had.
Surely Goldberg himself isn't responsible. Rather, I suppose that someone
at Sun did that.

> After I
> recovered from the machine crash when 10 Mbytes of memory
> wasn't enough to display the "page",...
>
> I hope I can find the pdf version somewhere.

Yes, I hope you can.

David