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Subject: Re: Numerical calculations: Why not use fixed point types for
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On Friday, January 25, 2013 1:23:38 PM UTC+1, Paul Colin Gloster wrote:

> That ceased to be true for (then) new mainstream desktops during the
> 
> 1990's when Intel Pentiums became popular. Unfortunately people who
> 
> create books do not always bother to check if claims they make in them
> 
> became out of date during a previous decade. For example, Colin Paul
> 
> Gloster, "Book Review: "Optimization Algorithms in Physics"",
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> "International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical
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> Simulation", June 2010, Vol. 11, No. 6, Pages 387-388.

Thanks for this additional information and for the Book Review example. Good to know!

YC