On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 at 00:43:13, Lau wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Marcel Kilgus wrote:
The history is documented here http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754story.html
Can someone please define "Gradual Underflow". That was the core issue being addressed. (don't if I have simply missed it in this thread) Pity Lau wasn't involved.
The author just_has_ to be American - he forgot the complete works of Shakespeare - the "8 monkeys" you know (That is 8 sideways, of course, a la QLT).
Superb link... thanks. (How the hell did you find it?).
PS. After having a quick shot at Google to see if I could get to your link location, I did hit this one: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.42.html#subj5
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