[comp.lang.misc] IEEE Floating point Standard

akhiani@ricks.enet.dec.com (Homayoon Akhiani) (05/10/90)

        I do not know where is the best place to post this. However:

        I am looking for an algorithm, or a program which will only
        run on machine that has support for IEEE Standard for Floating point
        arithmetic. 

        I am also interested to see that how NAN's and Infinity arithmetic
        of this standard has been used. my questions are:

        - Why they are in this standard(NAN's, +/- infinity) ?

        - Is there a numerical algorithm that uses these concepts ?