From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [50.116.15.146]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD46526E18 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2024 04:36:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3976F43320; Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:36:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:43:6f73:7461]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 215F24330C for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:36:40 +1000 (AEST) Received: (qmail 44153 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2024 02:36:38 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=iecc.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:cleverness; s=ac76667cd036.k2406; bh=vtSrXaIDFlZueFChTXmosfK+ww1IllumgOQ6eEhgGhY=; b=QmWiFX+W5g1ygnR/xP5XVcS44gjvmLI9OVDhrY9OZjW/ezmKYH2QrpFS6Fu0YuVA1Sxz/m4w6bs1wkIUH/991tmUcqL5UUB6eGTV8YgOSDhnN8Q9XhEechqhkmtsG05wjiQSWW6PM7kSsquTxPMDyXoVzhwVq2FooR+lp17hghRFWP5dhIN0IZJv+TVSUAyL1ZgowAf4EMViH66Qja91OjP4kRUJuObZJ4ESYlTj5SSySWGxqDQ0N9fYG/2dTdEtEymyXgX5SPVjdz3PSKxHPRd1eu8d081LXRecblfOYYGHz+oVDGvCh8C2YVqNFMLmCoViF2rfnP15JyEKrwP4tQ== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=taugh.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:cleverness; s=ac76667cd036.k2406; bh=vtSrXaIDFlZueFChTXmosfK+ww1IllumgOQ6eEhgGhY=; b=Eg8aGUKjgWM5IRzPzkHEShYOdyCl2QNdfCbNg1nCAGblCvCzcpDCdaiWt19w+CimiutdCa99a5GFl3KRdQCgoz4fkedA1TFoCZ+5AU471fDYuWjPwR2tcXWCYKLV9Vvyd5buhJMId7vTkG0jfWts2yfiByCUCko63j2WbPbPSH9yh+LI4f7ci0wqcRfE064YiD9VsnEgDrwcTko/gvhkTT8R2BASxg5nU4kJ8tyaqbvilmhyOilxziKkswwwBTLufFPI0u4frWgKk2HsbPOLvLlscyesgTOZm6vs69ODw2pp0srtgql5fQ4qyahXVBWE4wYCTRAayOfjyUUmLKczXg== Received: from ary.qy ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) by imap.iecc.com ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) with ESMTPS (TLS1.3 ECDHE-RSA CHACHA20-POLY1305 AEAD) via TCP6; 27 Jun 2024 02:36:38 -0000 Received: by ary.qy (Postfix, from userid 501) id E16DE8E2CA18; Wed, 26 Jun 2024 22:36:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: 26 Jun 2024 22:36:37 -0400 Message-Id: <20240627023637.E16DE8E2CA18@ary.qy> From: "John Levine" To: tuhs@tuhs.org In-Reply-To: Organization: Taughannock Networks X-Headerized: yes Cleverness: minimal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Message-ID-Hash: ZUXXBCSZIVLCOKWA2ILJGGSWE7SEYHFU X-Message-ID-Hash: ZUXXBCSZIVLCOKWA2ILJGGSWE7SEYHFU X-MailFrom: johnl@iecc.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: arithmetic, Re: ANSI (C) vs IEEE (POSIX) Standards Body Selection List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: It appears that Charles H Sauer (he/him) said: >I was waiting for Heinz to say something, assuming he would at least say >what he did about the beginnings of POSIX. > >Another IEEE standard of great historical import is IEEE 754-1985 for >representing floating point numbers. Many of the 801 people wanted to >preserve IBM Hexadecimal floating point introduced with System/360. In view of the well known horrible numeric properities of the hex floating point, why? Because they had so much code written to work around it? R's, John