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   John Savard to Thomas Koenig   
   Re: On Cray arithmetic   
   12 Oct 25 04:04:46   
   
   From: quadibloc@invalid.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:32:22 +0000, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
      
   > Just found a gem on Cray arithmetic, which (rightly) incurred The Wrath   
   > of Kahan:   
      
   While the arithmetic on the Cray I was bad enough, this document seems to   
   focus on some later models in the Cray line, which, like the IBM System/   
   360 when it first came out, before an urgent retrofit, lacked a guard   
   digit!   
      
   John Savard   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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