From: Bob Brown <bob@justplainbob.com>
Subject: Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 16:36:09 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2016-03-02T16:36:09+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nb74po$u3q$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: nb748q$t1f$1@dont-email.me
On 2016-03-02, J-P. Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote:
> Le 02/03/2016 16:44, Bob Brown a ?crit :
>>> This was a deliberate decision, to make Ada compatible with various
>>> floating point models. Many (most? all?) number crunching machines do
>>> not have IEEE arithmetic,
>>
>> Really? Which one(s) are you talking about? I didn't even know there were
>> any number crunchers aside from the sad ones made from a kid's pool full
>> of Intel chips stuck together with tape and glue. All the real stuff like
>> CDC/Cray has been gone for ages.
> Well, true enough, I don't know for recent machines. Even Silicon
> Graphics has disappeared (not so long ago), and AFAIK, they were not IEEE.
>
>>> and there has been famous papers claiming that Java requiring IEEE
>>> arithmetic was a huge mistake.
>>
>> I would be interested in seeing the references if you have them at hand.
>>
> https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf
Thanks. I'll check that one out. I'm a little surprised before reading it. I
thought Kahan was the main reason IEEE math exists at all.
Bob
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-27 0:37 Everything You Know Is Wrong Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-12-27 7:55 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-12-27 17:37 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-12-27 8:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-27 17:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-01-04 14:44 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2015-12-28 9:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-12-28 11:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-28 16:27 ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
2015-12-28 17:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-28 18:50 ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
2015-12-28 20:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 11:42 ` G.B.
2015-12-29 12:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 13:50 ` G.B.
2015-12-29 14:06 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-12-29 14:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 16:31 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2015-12-29 17:02 ` G.B.
2015-12-29 16:57 ` G.B.
2015-12-29 17:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 17:53 ` G.B.
2015-12-29 18:09 ` G.B.
2015-12-29 22:05 ` Randy Brukardt
2016-01-04 14:51 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2015-12-29 21:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-12-28 17:19 ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
2015-12-29 23:37 ` darkestkhan
2016-01-05 13:52 ` brbarkstrom
2016-01-10 14:46 ` Michael Erdmann
2016-02-29 12:14 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2016-03-02 14:11 ` vincent.diemunsch
2016-03-02 14:23 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-03-02 15:44 ` Bob Brown
2016-03-02 16:30 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-03-02 16:36 ` Bob Brown [this message]
2016-03-02 16:52 ` Bob Brown
2016-03-02 14:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-02 15:31 ` vincent.diemunsch
2016-02-29 12:27 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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