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Re: [Groff] Floating point arithmetic in groff
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] Floating point arithmetic in groff |
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Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:36:08 +0100 (CET) |
> > I then hesitated to add it to groff because it adds code which
> > produces platform-dependent results, .... the situation has become
> > much better, and today most of the IEEE implementations appear to
> > work fine.
>
> Results of elementary and transcendental functions are still far
> from being platform-independent today [...]
Thanks for the information. On the other hand, those functions will
never be used directly for typesetting, so it wouldn't do much harm.
BTW, I haven't got any reaction from Abramo w.r.t. copyright
assignments -- is his email address still valid?
Werner