weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) (09/12/88)
In article <379@quintus.UUCP>, ok@quintus (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: >It is time we told the architects that high-speed garbage is garbage. >It is important to know whether a computation has delivered correct >results. Hear hear! I'm sick of compilers and libraries that think they know mathematics better than me: everything from mod(-1,6) equalling -1 instead of 5, to the Unix sqrt and log functions taking negative arguments. [By the way: do some of you think it's time for comp.lang.c-vs-fortran? This topic comes up endlessly in both groups.] ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720