bearophile wrote: > Joel C. Salomon: >> On the 754r mailing list, the HPC crowd was *very* insistent that static >> modes be explicitly in the standard. > > Because in technology lot of things aren't determined on technological > merits, but by politics, money and power. Sometimes behind some of the best > things you can find around us there's the insistent work of very few people. > For example we have to say a big THANK YOU to the personal work, political > too, of few people like Knuth, for today having good floating point > numbers/operations on all computers. > > Bye, > bearophile
Interesting article on the history of 754: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754story.html -- Daniel
