On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote:
> The underlying issue is that arithmetic on an integer ring is
> associative, commutative, and distributive in the usual way, while
> arithmetic on floating point is none of these.
Just a nit, but I believe IEEE floating point arithmetic is
commutative. This does not affect your point,
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Cheers,
--MarkM
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