Here's a challenge for floating point lovers.

[The Grey Wolf]

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Doug, I can't find another host besides "gould" who can talk to you
to send mail, so...

In article <14993 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: 
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>(I'm trying to resist my usual slam at IEEE floating point.)
>

How many different floating point formats are there out there?  I'm
aware of IEEE and VAX.  Are there any others, and what are the pros and
cons?

I can only assume that somehow IEEE is drain-bamaged; whether by loss of
precision or what, I don't know.

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