stuff & things

floating point

Floating-point tends to chafe my ass. I was thinking perhaps I’d try to really understand it. These look interesting:

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/goldberg91what.html

http://www.cant.ua.ac.be/ieeecc754.html

http://fluorescence.fjfi.cvut.cz/~adamek/nm/ieee754.pdf

Only way to understand something is to implement it though…

[Update]: even better by the looks of it: http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncgTOC.html