----- Original Message ----- From: "P Witte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] is minus one = -1?
> > 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 Can they have rights when they wer'nt born equell? ( did'nt understand a word of this thread but if you wait long enough you get to say something ) All the best - Bill > > >
