On 2023-02-17, Mats Wichmann <m...@wichmann.us> wrote: > And... this topic as a whole comes up over and over again, like > everywhere.
That's an understatement. I remember it getting rehashed over and over again in various USENET groups 35 years ago when when the VAX 11/780 BSD machine on which I read news exchanged postings with peers using a half-dozen dial-up modems and UUCP. One would have thought it would be a time-saver when David Goldberg wrote "the paper" in 1991, and you could tell people to go away and read this: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html https://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/bachelor/IEEE754_article.pdf It didn't help. Every fall, the groups were again full of a new crop of people who had just discovered all sorts of bugs in the way <software/hardware> implemented floating point, and pointing them to a nicely written document that explained it never did any good. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
