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Re:An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998) by nhoughto on Friday October 29, 2021 @07:35PM (#29044668)
Is an interesting topic and seems to have an interesting history, is there any good books on the topic? Something less academic and dry than I’d expect a floating point book to be but more all encompassing and accessible?
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Re:An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998) by jlgustafson on Sunday October 31, 2021 @11:16AM (#29057564)
"The End of Error: Unum Computing" is written for a popular audience, not fellow mathematicians. Only high school math is needed, and it's got plenty of humor and full-color illustrations and figures, in an attempt to make a very dry topic into something interesting.

A book on posit arithmetic is in the works.

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