"wobble" in Floating Point (LONG) (was Re: comp_t)

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <9105180923.aa03879 at art-sy.detroit.mi.us> chap at art-sy.detroit.mi.us (j chapman flack) writes:
  [ on the use of a base-8 radix ]
> I just found the information above in David Goldberg, "What Every Computer
> Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" in the March 1991
> _ACM Computing Surveys_.  Lots of other good stuff in there too.

Naturally, you can find the same information in Knuth, exercise 4.2.4-6.
Lots of other good stuff in there too.

---Dan