Re: Strange Result -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Strange Result
From: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:56:27 -0600
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Oops. *Intel 8087*

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 9:54 AM Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

the *Intel 8088 *coproc which became IEEE_754-1985.

A Conversation with William Kahan : How important is numerical accuracy?
<https://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/a-conversation-with-william-kahan/184410314>

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 9:48 AM Jack Woehr <
jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

.012 * .011

0.00013199999999999998

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