From: "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@...>
Date: 2004-05-13T04:58:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Major Addition Bug?

Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> This basic concept of floating point arithmetic is every bit as
> pertinent today as it was in 1969 and the years prior to that.

Careful.  Decimal floating point is not, per se, a contradiction in 
terms.  Many machines had it in the 1950s, and some systems still 
support it in software to this day.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is 
about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W. 
W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
   -- C. S. Lewis.  "An Experiment in Criticism"