The *ART* of Computer Programming

Joshua Osborne stripes at eng.umd.edu
Tue Mar 13 11:42:49 AEST 1990


In article <1990Mar12.102407.9956 at world.std.com> bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>Sure there is, consider a program which generated the tables used for
>interpolating sin and other trignometric functions in a math library.
What if you get a new box that has a diffrent FP format?  Or a 128 bit
doubble?  Then you want to run it again to get more accurcy...
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