2 Sep
2006
2 Sep
'06
4:30 p.m.
On 9/2/2006 at 11:48 PM John Honniball wrote:
Um, it's Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, the people who devised the standard
for floating-point representation.
One has to ask "Why?" It seems that mainframes got along just fine for
years and years without a "standard". For that matter, does any machine
actually carry out computations in IEEE format, or is the situation like
the x86 NDP--convert to a higher-precision "internal" format before
jiggling bits?
Cheers,
Chuck