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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:14:49 +1100
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On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 18:40 +0000, Dave Korn wrote:

>   This is utter fantasy.  Floating point hardware either conforms to IEEE754,
> which specifies the exact algorithms to be used in different rounding modes,
> or it is broken.

.. as Intel found out :))

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