Torture tests: what do they mean?

[Paul Dale]

If I had to suggest one resouce, I'd go for William Kahan's writings as a good general introduction. I can't suggest just one of the books I referenced.

There are many PhDs still waiting in this area, so yes a decade might be a decent start

Mike Colishaw's Floating Point Decimal Pages pages link to his decimal floating point library which is the basis of the 34S's numerics. There actually has quite a bit of recent development work on hardware decimal floating point arithmetic. Several processors are moving to support it natively. IBM's power cpus are beginning too and I believe Intel is working on this too.


- Pauli