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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
Re: IEEE 754 Asks the Impossible WE@completely.invalid (Wolfgang Ehrhardt) - 2016-04-04 10:08 +0000
Re: IEEE 754 Asks the Impossible Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-08-20 10:22 -0700
Re: IEEE 754 Asks the Impossible Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2017-08-14 15:26 -0700
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