havent read any of these specs but im sitting here thinking that bits on a processor that can subtract == more preicision ..
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 12:44 PM, erik quanstrom <[email protected]>wrote: > > IEEE754-1985 didn't specify circular, hyperbolic or other > > advanced functions. You can have 754 compliant hardware and > > not implement these functions. In any case the standard can > > not dictate the accuracy of functions not specified in it. An > > iterative algorithm may lose more than 1 bit of accuracy since > > iterations won't be done in infinite precision. One can not > > assume accuracy to a bit even where these functions are > > imeplemented in h/w. For x86, accuracy may be specified in > > some Intel or AMD manual. > > that wasn't my reading of the spec. so you're saying that if > the iterative algorithm loops 53 times, it's free to return any > answer whatever and still be compliant? > > - erik > > -- ⎼⎺⎺├@┼␊├├≤-␍⎼␊▒␍:/⎺└␊/⎼⎺#
