At 08:35 1998-02-10 -0700, you wrote:
>On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Scott Newell wrote:
>
>> [...]
>
>> 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.
>
>> [...]
>
Oh, shit! Is it that bad!
How can we obtain correct libraries, then?

BTW do the C compilers do correct math, then?

/Morgan
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