David Goehrig wrote: > IEEE754 run contrary to all of my 18 years of sudying math and using > rational numbers.
I find that a bit difficult to accept because numerical analysis courses in colleges and universities describe floating point arithmetic as a basis for the material. Really: without knowing how floating point arithmetic works, then it's going to be considerably harder to do applied math work. Also, I don't see how anybody could mount an argument against floating point arithmetic on math grounds when e.g.: Knuth devotes a significant number of pages of The Art of Computer Programming to them. Not to say that Knuth has to be right, but... Andres. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
