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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Thomas Koenig   
   Re: On Cray arithmetic   
   12 Oct 25 00:28:16   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:32:22 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:   
      
   > Just found a gem on Cray arithmetic, which (rightly) incurred The Wrath   
   > of Kahan ...   
      
   No harm in reminding everyone of his legendary foreword to the   
   Standard Apple Numerics manual, 2nd ed, of 1988. He had something   
   suitably acerbic to say about a great number of different vendors’   
   idea of floating-point arithmetic (including Cray).   
      
   I posted one instance here   
   .   
      
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