From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: Ada Floating-point model
Date: 1997/08/14
Date: 1997-08-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mheaney-ya023680001408971504220001@news.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5sq0qt$aev$1@gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl
In article <5sq0qt$aev$1@gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl>, Geert Bosch
<geert@gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl> wrote:
>I am trying to understand the floating point model of Ada.
>Hopefully somebody would like to answer my questions below.
I can't answer you directly, as this is the very stuff I'm still trying to
learn. But here's at least something. Ada 83 was influenced by the "Brown
model," documented in
A Simple but Realistic Model of Floating-Point Computation
W. S. Brown
ACM Tranactions on Mathematical Software
Vol. 7, No. 4, December 1981, p 445-480
Even today, after many years of Ada programming, I'm still not sure what a
"safe" number is, though I think I understand what a model number is.
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