There are some resources for testing by Nelson Beebe at
http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/ieee/timops.html From what I
understand, the main issues are handling of edge effects (underflow,
overflow, divide by 0, etc.) where compilers may do some things
different from the standard's
The 754 standard is being updated and the result is being
voted on now, I think. It's called 754r and can be found
on the web. 16-bit and 128-bit floating point formats are
what led me to it.
Dave Feustel
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:50:45AM -0400, Prof J C Nash wrote:
There are some resources for
Gnumeric does not let you access NaN etc. It would interfere with the
desired semantics.
Morten
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The complexities of the edge effects are best kept out of the
spreadsheet, as Morten indicates. However, there are some computations
that might be influenced by how a particular internal calculation is
performed. I was earlier looking at the ends of the Gaussian (normal)
distribution where one
