This math scares me

[Neelakantan Krishnaswami]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:07:38 +0100, Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>"Neelakantan Krishnaswami" <neelk at alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
>news:slrn9asbvc.dfq.neelk at alum.mit.edu...
>    [snip]
>> Point Numbers Accurately_ and Byrger and Dybvig's _Printing
>> Floating Point Numbers Quickly and Accurately_ and submit it as a
>> patch I don't think anyone will object. :)
>
> It's Burger, not Byrger (just in case someone should be searching or
> quoting this -- the analogy with Dybvig is hard to resist!-),

That's cleverer than the real reason: it's just that the 'y' and 'u'
keys are next to each other on my keyboard. :)

> and I think it's in the proceedings of the 1996 SIGPLAN conference.

Both papers are available from the ACM Digital Library, too. (Subscribing
to it was one of the best investments I ever made.)


Neel