From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gid109d8a,public X-Google-Thread: f8362,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8362,public X-Google-Thread: 107079,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gid107079,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,c7637cfdf68e766 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: floating point comparison Date: 1997/08/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 261894734 References: <33DF6F43.6EEA4806@digicomp.com> <5rqehs$g1r$1@odin.cc.pdx.edu> <33E11967.4A30@nr.net> <33E214C3.311C@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,sci.math.num-analysis,comp.software-eng,comp.theory,sci.math Date: 1997-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, W. Wesley Groleau x4923 wrote: > I'd be pleased if I could just get my hands on a proposed alternative > for the "fair bit of embarassing nonsense" in Ada Quality and Style. There are lots of references, numerical analysis is a well established field, and the subset that you are interested in, error analysis and computer arithmetic, is the most basic part. A good place to start if you don't know much would be David Goldberg's article in ACM Computing Surveys, vol 23, no. 1, March '91. I think that there is also a new book on computer arithmetic from SIAM Press by N. Higham but that is probably overkill for your purposes. > It would not be appropriate for an general-purpose style guide to > mandate "take an introductory course in numerical analysis." But it is appropriate to assume some prerequisites, including some work in numerical analysis. Unfortunately, many "computer science" students don't like this material and manage to avoid it. -- Brian