On Saturday 30 October 2004 03:23 pm, Steven Jenkins wrote: | trans. (T. Onoma) wrote: | > I'm not claiming to be a mathematical expert. I have a fair grasp of many | > concepts including floating-point arithmetic --but it's certainly not | > perfect. I simply _believe_ that it can be done. That's my opinion, I may | > be wrong, but I may also be right. You can have your opinion as well. But | > please do not belittle my _attempt_. At least I'm trying a better world. | > An introductory Computer Programming course in 1969 is certainly not the | > last word on such matters. | | No, the last word was J. H. Wilkinson, "Rounding Errors in Algebraic | Processes", 1963. :-) What happened to David Matula? T.