Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Parsing timestamps? Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:14:49 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2025Jul11.121449@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> References: <1f433fabcb4d053d16cbc098dedc6c370608ac01@i2pn2.org> <4d440297d7e17251ebc50774bacfec73e184f9bc@i2pn2.org> <2025Jul5.104922@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <6fd9f665e73ad93270fff88eca894ba69424cac7@i2pn2.org> <87a55dxbft.fsf@nightsong.com> <2025Jul10.094723@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <87h5zjx2lb.fsf@nightsong.com> <2025Jul11.090205@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <87zfdbuosb.fsf@nightsong.com> Injection-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:22:34 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5eaf2302f9abc0e74cc94fc392fedde6"; logging-data="1516929"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Qfx9kwwg8B/bDqk42KKsD" Cancel-Lock: sha1:wUR0GRJYzW7xLpjW5CBmcSM1tyI= X-newsreader: xrn 10.11 Paul Rubin 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 -- M. Anton Ertl http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html New standard: https://forth-standard.org/ EuroForth 2023 proceedings: http://www.euroforth.org/ef23/papers/ EuroForth 2024 proceedings: http://www.euroforth.org/ef24/papers/