Lau writes: > Tony Firshman wrote: > > > > 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.
Working in the care "industry" I thought Id heard it all, but this sounds scary: "One used traps, one trap to catch results that underflowed and denormalize them to produce subnormal numbers, and another trap to catch subnormal operands and prenormalize them." If numbers have rights someone ought to go after these guys. Per
