Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > Considering how often this has come up, I've sort of lost faith > in CS programs at colleges. Now, this might be an unfair statement as I > don't know if any of those bringing up the question ever had college CS > courses... But the fluff of floating point data was something I vaguely > recall had been covered in my second FORTRAN class [1976-77; I ran > FORTRAN, Advanced FORTRAN, and Assembly in my first year] (since COBOL > used packed decimal, it wasn't a candidate for the behavior -- not > problem, as it is not erroneous behavior, just something one needs to > learn about). > > A book that may be out of print "Real Numbers Made Real" (hope I > recalled the name) covers some of this.
Almost -- the book is "Real Computing Made Real: Preventing Errors in Scientific and Engineering Calculations", by Forman S. Acton -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
