gwh@typhoon.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert) (12/12/89)
This appeared on one of our local newsgroups here at berkeley [we have an all-apollo cluster]: >From: [deleted]@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU >Subject: The Math functions Library >Message-ID: <11876@shuriken.berkeley.edu> >Date: 7 Dec 89 12:35:30 GMT >Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU >Distribution: ucb >Lines: 9 > > > A bug has been discovered in the Apollo math functions. More a > accurately, in double precision mode there is some inaccuracy regarding > the number four. > This is being patched by redefining four, so please add > #include <four.h> > in all appropriate code. It will be fixed in 10.2 We believe it to have been faked... even so, I think you all may enjoy it. **************************************************************************** George William Herbert | UCB Naval Architecture [On schedule? at UCB? Yes!] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- gwh@ocf.berkeley.edu ||||||||| "And What if I Don't?" "Then, You Die, gwh@soda.berkeley.edu ||||||||||||||| the Girl dies, Everybody Dies..." maniac@garnet.berkeley.edu |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| -Heavy Metal