Comparisons of incompatible types
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Thu Dec 9 18:23:03 EST 2010
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Apple specific stuff is obsolete, it's a great resource for understanding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
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