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Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve

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Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:59:52 +0000, jimp wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I don't think anyone other than you has said any such thing.
>> 
> 
> Judas Priest!  You need serious help and I'm not kidding.
> 
> This statement is an example of what psychoneurolgists would
> call "confabulation."  It means, for one thing, remembering things
> that did not happen.
> 
> I am not kidding.  GET HELP FAST.

It seems the problem is you have become obsessed with IEEE754 and can
not understand why the rest of the world is not obsessed with it also.

In addition, you seem to be stuck in a 1970's mindset.
 
>> Never in 43 years of programming have I seen such a problem due to lack
>> of understanding of IEEE754.
>> 
> 
> IEEE754 has not been around for 43 years.

Irrelevant.

> This probably contributes heavily to you opposition.  You acquired
> your formative experience well before the standard was established
> and consequently have had a difficult time adapting.
> 
> 
>> 
>> No, it does not by any stretch of the imagination represent a possibly
>> very common occurrence.
> 
> Yes, it does.

No, it does not.

In 2015 anyone analyzing data is most likely going to use a canned
application, such as a spreadsheet to do statistical analysis or
Mathcad to do computational analysis.

It is highly unlikely anyone is going to write their own software in
any general purpose programming language.

I can remember spending weeks in the 70's writting my own statistical
analyisis programs and days getting the 132 column line printer
graphing routines to work using a BASIC like language.

Today the whole thing would have been done and on the laser printer
in a few hours with a spreadsheet.

For people other than those writting applications such as Mathcad, the
computer is an appliance and knowledge of IEEE754 is not required nor
is it of any importance to them.

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 19:43 +0000
  Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-13 19:59 +0000
    Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 20:16 +0000
      Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-13 21:02 +0000
        Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 22:32 +0000
          Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-13 23:32 +0000
            Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 23:52 +0000
              Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-14 00:06 +0000
  Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 21:14 +0000
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    Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-13 23:33 +0000
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    Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 22:04 +0000
      Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-13 23:35 +0000
        Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 23:54 +0000
          Re: Floating Point Enigma - Please Solve jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-14 00:15 +0000
  Re: IEEE754 compliance is the _default_. Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 02:08 +0000
    Re: IEEE754 compliance is the _default_. GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-13 19:30 -0700

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