Re: Floating Point Test Suite

From	Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups	sci.physics, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Floating Point Test Suite
Date	2015-11-11 15:19 -0500
Organization	None
Message-ID	<n207qv$pfe$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<pan.2015.11.11.18.01.38@localhost.localdomain> <pan.2015.11.11.19.58.41@localhost.localdomain>

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Fabian Russell wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:01:38 +0000, Fabian Russell wrote:
>
>> Greetings physics enthusiasts:
>> 
>
> What?  No takers?
>
> What's the matter?  Floating point numbers are not impressive enough to
> your digital savoir-faire?
>
> Floating point numbers make the computing world go around.  Nothing could
> be done without them, from calculating a flight to Mars to balancing
> grandma's check book.

Fool.  Nobody uses floating points for money, except fools like you, fool.

<chuckle>

You do realize you're talking to people who probably think Excel is
suitable for big-time calculations?

   http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/02/13/microsofts-excel-might-be-the-most-dangerous-software-on-the-planet/

   No, really, it’s possible that Microsoft‘s Excel is the most dangerous
   software on the planet. Yes, more dangerous than rogue code running a
   nuclear power plant, than the Stuxnet that was deliberately sent off to
   sabotage Iran‘s nuclear program, worse, even, than whatever rent in the
   fabric of space time led to the invention of Lolcats. Really, that
   serious.

   . . .

   To translate that into the vernacular, the bank, JP Morgan, was running
   huge bets (tens of billions of dollars, what we might think of a golly
   gee gosh that’s a lot of money) in London. The way they were
   checking what they were doing was playing around in Excel. And not even
   in the Masters of the Universe style that we might hope, all integrated,
   automated and self-checking, but by cutting and pasting from one
   spreadsheet to another. And yes, they got one of the equations wrong as a
   result of which the bank lost several billion dollars (perhaps we might
   drop the gee here but it’s still golly gosh that’s a lot of money).

-- 
You single-handedly fought your way into this hopeless mess.

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Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 18:01 +0000
  Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 18:09 +0000
  Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 19:58 +0000
    Re: Floating Point Test Suite Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-11-11 15:19 -0500
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 20:28 +0000
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 20:37 +0000
        Re: Floating Point Test Suite Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-11-11 16:33 -0500
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 21:13 +0000
        Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 15:16 -0600
          Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 21:42 +0000
          Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 21:54 +0000
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 16:43 -0600
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 23:15 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 17:34 -0600
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 17:37 -0600
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 23:47 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-12 07:56 -0500
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 19:07 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 19:57 -0600
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 00:45 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 04:55 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 09:26 -0600
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 20:56 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 20:00 -0600
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 16:48 -0600
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-11 23:08 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 17:12 -0600
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 17:06 -0600
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-12 07:35 -0500
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 19:29 +0000
    Re: Floating Point Test Suite Monkey Man <manm0nk3y@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 21:33 -0600
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 04:47 +0000
        Re: Floating Point Test Suite Monkey Man <manm0nk3y@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 20:19 -0600
          Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 03:28 +0000
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-12 22:40 -0500
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 03:59 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 00:16 -0500
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-13 15:00 -0700
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Monkey Man <manm0nk3y@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 01:40 -0600
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 08:22 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 12:41 -0500
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 19:16 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Apollyon <adravirgo@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 13:04 -0800
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 22:58 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-14 18:08 -0500
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 23:39 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-11-14 18:26 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-15 07:07 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-11-14 23:42 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 09:49 +0100
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-15 21:01 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-15 21:33 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-11-15 14:24 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-15 22:55 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-15 22:25 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-11-15 14:59 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 09:41 +0100
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 06:24 +0000
        Re: Floating Point Test Suite Monkey Man <manm0nk3y@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 20:29 -0600
          Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 03:49 +0000
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Monkey Man <manm0nk3y@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 22:49 -0600
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 04:59 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Monkey Man <manm0nk3y@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 01:56 -0600
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 08:28 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Monkey Man <manm0nk3y@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 22:24 -0600
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 04:45 +0000
          Re: June 1986 ? ! Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 06:19 +0000
            Re: June 1986 ? ! GreyCloud <cumulus@mist.com> - 2015-11-13 15:03 -0700
      Re: MonkeyMan is FabianRussell. Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-12 19:44 +0000
    Re: Floating Point Test Suite Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2015-11-13 01:59 -0500
      Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-13 07:43 +0000
        Re: Floating Point Test Suite Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-11-13 15:11 -0800
          Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 00:00 +0000
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-11-13 16:31 -0800
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 02:26 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-14 03:52 +0000
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-14 02:46 +0000
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite Timo <timo@physics.uq.edu.au> - 2015-11-13 19:26 -0800
                Re: Floating Point Test Suite benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 02:11 -0500
              Re: Floating Point Test Suite noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-11-14 15:20 -0800
            Re: Floating Point Test Suite jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-14 00:47 +0000
  Re: Floating Point Test Suite Big Fish in a Small Crotch <bigfishinasmallcrotch@myself.com> - 2015-11-11 15:28 -0500

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