Comparisons of incompatible types

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:34:19 -0800, John Nagle wrote:

>     (The best coverage of this whole topic was the Apple Numerics Manual
> for the original Mac.  Apple hired the floating point expert from
> Berkeley to get this right. Then Apple went from the M68xxx series to
> the IBM PowerPC, and 80-bit floats to 64-bit floats, breaking all the
> engineering applications, most of which were never ported to the
> PowerPC.)

I second John's recommendation re the Apple Numerics Manual. Even if the 
Apple specific stuff is obsolete, it's a great resource for understanding 
floating point issues.


-- 
Steven