Re: Q: division vs multiplication

| [ASIDE]. A year or two ago, there were a couple of papers that
| appeared together somewhere, and which I know I have, but which I
| have been unable to locate. One was entitled something like "How to
| write floating point numbers" and the other "How to read floating
| point numbers".
|
| Can anyone give me the reference?


David Gay's high quality implementation of strtod/dtoa (convert double
to ascii) routines lists the following in the source:


"How to Read Floating Point Numbers Accurately", by William
D. Clinger, Proceedings of the ACM, SIGPLAN 1990, pages 92-101.


and:


"How to Print Floating-Point Numbers Accurately" by Guy L. Steele,
Jr. and Jon L. White, Proceedings of the ACM, SIGPLAN 1990, pages
92-101.


You can get dtoa from netlib (netlib.att.com:/netlib/fp).


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