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Article #21186Re: What is IEEE *854* ?
From: Martin Howe
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 08:38
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 08:38
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In article <774@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> I wrote: >The subject line says it all. I'm familiar with 754 but until recently ... I'd like to say thanks to all those who mailed and posted information. Here's a summary of what I got: The IEEE 854 standard is a radix and word-size independent version of IEEE 754. Available from IEEE/CS and ANSI (and possibly, in the UK, from BSI). The full title is `Radix Independant Floating Point Standard') and it is a subset of 754 that omits details of the format and radix of the floating point numbers, leaving things like accuracy requirements, exception handling, not-a-numbers, and so on. It is almost the same as IEEE 754 but has somthing like an extra definition at the start along the lines of "let b be the base used" and a global replacement of b for 2 in the rest of the text. Thanks again for those who posted this info. -- Martin Howe (This posting is private, and NOT on behalf of UKC)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!mch From: mch@ukc.ac.uk (Martin Howe) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: What is IEEE *854* ? Summary: Thanks for the info Keywords: math float double 860 88 trap fp Message-ID: <1060@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Date: 11 May 89 08:38:19 GMT References: <774@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Reply-To: mch@ukc.ac.uk (Martin Howe) Organization: Lan/Micro Group, Comp. Lab, Univ. of Kent, CANTERBURY, UK Lines: 19