havent read any of these specs but im sitting here thinking that bits on a processor that can subtract == more preicision ..  

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 12:44 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> IEEE754-1985 didn't specify circular, hyperbolic or other
> advanced functions. You can have 754 compliant hardware and
> not implement these functions. In any case the standard can
> not dictate the accuracy of functions not specified in it. An
> iterative algorithm may lose more than 1 bit of accuracy since
> iterations won't be done in infinite precision. One can not
> assume accuracy to a bit even where these functions are
> imeplemented in h/w.  For x86, accuracy may be specified in
> some Intel or AMD manual.

that wasn't my reading of the spec.  so you're saying that if
the iterative algorithm loops 53 times, it's free to return any
answer whatever and still be compliant?

- erik




--
⎼⎺⎺├@┼␊├├≤-␍⎼␊▒␍:/␤⎺└␊/⎼␤⎺#