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Re: [f-cpu] Re: Floating-Point?



On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 02:02:06PM +0200, Juergen Goeritz wrote:
[...]
> Was talking to Yann lately if it won't be possible
> to design fast 32 bit floating point instructions
> that keep the computed value as one part of a 64 bit
> value pair, the other being the imprecise error of
> this value due to the limitations of precision.

Alternatively, upper and lower bounds of the exact value.

> I am just getting into floating point methods though
> and therefore can't tell today if this is possible
> or not. But imagine you add/subtract/multiply/divide
> a number and take care of the number unsharpness the
> same instance. Forget about rounding problems, just
> track them with the computation values.

Go ahead, I'm listening :)

-- 
 Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
 "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
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