On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:09:39 +0200 Frank Barknecht <fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hallo, > Steve Harris hat gesagt: // Steve Harris wrote: > > > Several people have asked me what denormal numbers are over the last few > > weeks, well heres a much better description than my rambling head > > scratching: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~swh/denormal.ps > > > > Its an extract from David Goldberg's article, "What Every Computer > > Scientist Should Know about Floating-Point Arithmetic". > > Intersting article. For those who like me wanted to get the full text: > it's available at Citeseer: > > http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/253514.html > btw, this seems to be another interesting source: http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/index.html Markus Schwarzenberg