Happy Happy Joy Joy (was: On to Hydro)

[Mark S. Miller]

At 06:47 AM 8/21/00 , Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>In any case, all of these questions should be resolved by appeal to the IEEE
>standard. From bitter experience, I can tell you that designing a better
>arithmetic standard that generates different answers from the IEEE standard
>is simply a bad idea.

I agree, but for a different reason.  Once I understood the nature of the 
problem, I realized how good their solution is, and that I'm too stupid to 
improve on it; no matter how weird it may seem in places.


         Cheers,
         --MarkM