28 Mar
2016
28 Mar
'16
7:26 a.m.
From: Charles Anthony
the missing piece of the rounding algorithim has been
identified:
Only round if the mantissa was shifted more then 71 bits.
Wow. I'm really impressed that they implemented that in hardware, back then!
Then again, they threw so many gates at the Multics CPU, I guess they figured
a few more wouldn't matter... ;-)
Noel