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From: Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org>
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Subject: Re: In Memoriam: David N. Williams (1934 -- 2024)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:48:10 -0500
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On 3/18/25 2:12 AM, dxf wrote:
> On 18/03/2025 11:31 am, Krishna Myneni wrote:
>> ...
>> David also contributed to the Forth Scientific Library by extending Prof. Julian Noble's complex arithmetic library, and also developing automated tests for that library. He also developed tests for IEEE floating point arithmetic. Forth would not be as robust today for scientific computing without David's considerable effort.
> 
> IIRC he also single-handedly created the Forth IEEE-FP draft proposal based on
> input and feedback from c.l.f.  Very impressive.
> 

Yes. After I posted, I remember several other significant things which 
David contributed to Forth, including the IEEE-FP draft proposal. He was 
working on it, along with test code in 2020.

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Krishna