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Article #12048Re: IBM floating point using logarithms
From: Jeff Kenton OSG/UEG
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 01:38
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 01:38
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In article <1991Jun10.171824.10980@solbourne.com> McGuire@solbourne.com (Jim McGuire) writes: > "The key to the hybrid computational unit > is a new approach to representing logarithms > that closely parallels the IEEE P754 32-bit > floating-point format." > > "The result is a conversion method simple enough > to cast in hardware..." This reminds me of the early Wang calculators, which used logs internally. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- == jeff kenton Consulting at kenton@decvax.dec.com == == (617) 894-4508 (603) 881-0011 == -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!husc6!genrad!decvax.dec.com!abyss.zk3.dec.com!kenton From: kenton@abyss.zk3.dec.com (Jeff Kenton OSG/UEG) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: IBM floating point using logarithms Message-ID: <1991Jun12.013808.1858@decvax.dec.com> Date: 12 Jun 91 01:38:08 GMT Sender: usenet@decvax.dec.com (Usenet News System) Organization: DEC (Nashua, NH) Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: abyss.zk3.dec.com