Timeline for What was this book about floating-point system design/construction?
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| Feb 22, 2021 at 12:58 | comment | added | Solomon Slow | @texdr.aft, IDK, but nice find. I think I'm going to read that one. | |
| Feb 22, 2021 at 3:35 | comment | added | texdr.aft | @SolomonSlow Would it happen to be Pat H. Sterbenz's Floating-point Computation from 1974, readable here? "This book is directed toward two different types of readers. First, it is addressed to the obvious audience of those who are interested in using higher-level languages to write programs which will perform floating-point computation. Second, it is also directed toward the compiler designers and machine designers who are concerned with floating-point operations." | |
| Feb 21, 2021 at 17:15 | comment | added | Solomon Slow | As the author of the comment in question, I will repeat here that it was many decades ago. I've lost touch with the person who owned the book, and when I tried to search for something similar a few decades later, I turned up nothing. "The Handbook of Floating Point Arithmetic" cited above looks like it might contain some useful information, but it also looks like more of an academic work--unlike the "how-to" manual from my memory. | |
| Feb 21, 2021 at 6:19 | comment | added | user3840170 | Were the description in the comment a little more detailed, it might as well be someone else who is able to find the book in question. With the one we have, it might be harder, but still not impossible in principle; it might have in fact been a very distinctive book. | |
| Feb 20, 2021 at 16:25 | comment | added | wizzwizz4♦ | @Raffzahn It's how Stack Exchange is designed. :shrug: | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 19:15 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @Chenmunka Really? Spreading out a personal conversation over a series of questions? | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 14:01 | comment | added | Chenmunka♦ | Asking a new question rather than commenting on the existing question is a valid approach. A comment could be added to the other question linking to here, which would ping the original poster. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 12:20 | comment | added | Walter Mitty | I agree that the right way to find out is by posting a comment over at the original question. This question doesn't have enough information to pin it down. If you are interested in books going back to the 1970s or 1980s, start by researching Don Knuth or Jerry Sussman. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 11:59 | comment | added | Raffzahn | In that case, opening a question isn't much helpful. Post a comment to that answer addressing the one who wrote this ( @SolomonSlow), as this will ping him on the issue. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 11:59 | comment | added | Stephen Kitt | I suspect it would be more effective to make this a comment on the relevant post; that way you could tag Solomon Slow directly to notify them. Only they can answer the question, others can only guess... | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 11:56 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 19, 2021 at 11:36 | comment | added | texdr.aft | @Raffzahn The one that the commenter's co-worker was reading, referred to in the bolded part of the comment. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 11:33 | comment | added | Raffzahn | What exactly is the question? Are you asking about the linked book (Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic) or the IEEE standard book? If the first, you may need to acuirre the book. For the later, simply follow the Wiki link as it lists all relevant documents. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 11:03 | history | asked | texdr.aft | CC BY-SA 4.0 |