mch@ukc.ac.uk (Martin Howe) (05/11/89)
In article <774@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> I wrote: >The subject line says it all. I'm familiar with 754 but until recently ... I'd like to say thanks to all those who mailed and posted information. Here's a summary of what I got: The IEEE 854 standard is a radix and word-size independent version of IEEE 754. Available from IEEE/CS and ANSI (and possibly, in the UK, from BSI). The full title is `Radix Independant Floating Point Standard') and it is a subset of 754 that omits details of the format and radix of the floating point numbers, leaving things like accuracy requirements, exception handling, not-a-numbers, and so on. It is almost the same as IEEE 754 but has somthing like an extra definition at the start along the lines of "let b be the base used" and a global replacement of b for 2 in the rest of the text. Thanks again for those who posted this info. -- Martin Howe (This posting is private, and NOT on behalf of UKC)