On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Scott Newell wrote:

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> In the past I've read on the Piclist that the divide routine is buggy, that
> the multiply routine doesn't always round correctly, and that the addition
> and subtraction routines fail under some circumstances (something about
> large magnitude differences (2^24) and opposite signs).  I've also read
> that the normalize routine doesn't always shift properly, causing rounding
> and carry errors.

  And don't forget that the sqrt routine chews up 3,000 some odd cycles,
  for a poor aproximation, when the exact result can be gotten in less than
  200 cycles.

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