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Thomas Bushnell BSG scripsit: > How about the user expects that, if he has requested an > IEEE-conformant environment, he will get it? Could you explain the concrete benefits of having a flonum system available which is non-IIEEE? (Fast execution on processors which provide hardware flonums that are non-IEEE, now extremely rare, excepted.) -- With techies, I've generally found John Cowan If your arguments lose the first round http://www.reutershealth.com Make it rhyme, make it scan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Then you generally can jcowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Make the same stupid point seem profound! --Jonathan Robie