cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) (10/10/90)
In article <AGLEW.90Oct7203157@dwarfs.crhc.uiuc.edu>, aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) writes: ....................... > Letting me harp on one of my favorite harping points: carry > propagation is evil, and gets more evil as we move towards 64 bit > machines. Not if one wants to do good multiprecision arithmetic. No matter how many bits are in the machine hardware, one wants more. There are many quite classical numerical problems where the loss of hundreds of bits is not unusual. -- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907 Phone: (317)494-6054 hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet) {purdue,pur-ee}!l.cc!cik(UUCP)