9 Jan
2019
9 Jan
'19
10:17 a.m.
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
A real problem on the IBM 360 and 370 was their
floating point scheme.
I think that another serious problem was erroneous nomenclature, such as
FORTRAN using binary approximations (using a special subset of "RATIONAL
numbers"), and calling them "REAL" numbers!