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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: early unix rand
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:24:23 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2403150622540.86416@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2Pz1Cs0oQ=M78gjkLSk+q1GWY35_xxKrXM03Gh+rvwPYw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, Clem Cole wrote:

> Prof Kahan's Floating Point Test Program - the original from his and his
> students in his computer arithmetic seminar wrote during my days at UCB:
> https://www.netlib.org/paranoia/

I remember that well; it crashed a colleague's Xenix box...

-- Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-14 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-12 12:55 [TUHS] " Russ Cox
2024-03-12 18:08 ` [TUHS] " Russ Cox
2024-03-12 23:05 ` Jonathan Gray
2024-03-13  1:09   ` ron minnich
2024-03-13 16:41     ` ron minnich
2024-03-13 17:17       ` ron minnich
2024-03-13 20:25         ` Rob Pike
2024-03-13 20:34           ` Clem Cole
2024-03-14 19:24             ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2024-03-12 14:37 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-03-12 16:23 ` [TUHS] " Paul Winalski
2024-03-13  1:22   ` Russ Cox
2024-03-12 16:32 ` Ken Thompson

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