Re: Floating Point Test Suite

From	dvus <dven1@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups	sci.physics
Subject	Re: Floating Point Test Suite
Date	2015-11-14 19:20 -0500
Message-ID	<daq1evFd52oU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 11/14/2015 2:13 AM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
>> On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 04:47:20 +0000, jimp wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I would suppose your method would be a custom designed controller
>>> running the total system cost so high no one could afford the
>>> end product.
>>>
>>
>> How about Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the king of Saudi
>> Arabia?
>>
>> I think he might be very interested.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> just goes to show how little you know about real world
>>> programming in general and process control in particular.
>>>
>>
>> I don't want to know.
>>
>> But if I wanted to know, then I'd know.
>>
>> Microcontrollers are the moist boring things imaginable
>> and would only interest a technical-grade moron.
>
> I on the other hand find microcontrollers, which enable one to build
> real autonomous machines, to be extremely facinating.
>
> I find watching a machine do what it supposed to do while running
> the code I wrote to tell it how to function the most satisfiying
> type of programming no matter what the CPU is.

I too enjoyed that part of my job immensely. I used to program 
microprocessors to run elevators and the best part was giving an owner 
desired features never before possible with relay logic. Give me enough 
I/O and I could make it do almost anything.

> You may sit in your bunker and watch the results of floating point
> arithmetic flash by to your hearts content.

-- 
dvus

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Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 17:58 +0000
  Re: Floating Point Test Suite Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 23:44 +0100
    Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 22:54 +0000
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 00:23 +0100
  Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-11 23:16 +0000
    Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 23:48 +0000
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-12 00:32 +0000
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 07:52 +0100
        Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 21:13 +0000
          Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-12 21:46 +0000
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 22:27 +0000
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-12 23:06 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 23:40 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-13 00:12 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 00:24 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-13 06:10 -0500
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-13 18:56 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 20:03 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-13 20:40 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 20:51 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-13 21:10 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 21:29 -0500
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 19:35 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 03:56 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 20:34 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite "Bob Sutter" <invalid@exampl.com> - 2015-11-14 13:40 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 02:15 -0500
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 13:15 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 03:50 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-14 04:47 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 05:12 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-14 07:13 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-14 19:20 -0500
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-15 00:37 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-15 00:56 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-15 10:28 -0500
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 10:47 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-15 16:24 -0500
                Stevin "made the switching device noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 13:39 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2015-11-13 18:05 -0800

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