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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:
>anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
>> I have looked at a (IIRC) slide deck by Kahan where he shows examples
>> where the altenarnative by Gustafson (don't remember which one he
>> looked at in that slide deck) fails and traditional FP numbers work.
>
>Maybe this: http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/UnumSORN.pdf

Yes.

Here's a quote:

| These claims pander to Ignorance and Wishful Thinking.

That's my impression, too, and not just for Type I unums.

- anton
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