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Re: IEEE 754 Asks the Impossible

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On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 12:27:20 PM UTC-6, Quadibloc wrote:

> However, according to the Wikipedia page on the IEEE 754 standard, while this 
> was all the 1985 standard asked, the current standard insists on correct 
> rounding even for the transcendental functions - log and trig functions.

I see now that this was not the case, it was merely encouraged.

And apparently it's not as completely impossible as I thought: the documentation 
on the CRLIBM mathematics library explains how this goal can be achieved for 
single-precision numbers, and approached for double-precision.

John Savard

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IEEE 754 Asks the Impossible Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-04-02 11:27 -0700
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