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This web site contains technical information related to:

The papers every visitor should read, the Goldberg paper and the Priest supplement:

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know about Floating-Point Arithmetic, by David Goldberg - online at docs.sun.com - part of the
Numerical Computation Guide for Sun Studio 11.
D.11 Differences Among IEEE 754 Implementations, by Doug Priest, originally written as a supplement to the Goldberg paper.

For an overview of general floating-point issues in the Java context, see Joe Darcy's JavaOne paper.

Other technical information available here:

Technical reports by David Hough.
Trigonometric Argument Reduction by K-C Ng
Java - discussions of numerical issues in the Java language and virtual machine.
Alex Liu's thesis and BEEF docmentation.
software to download.
numeric-interest AT ucbtest.org mailing list information.
IEEE Arith Conferences.
754R revision activity.

Other technical pages of interest:

Other matters:

Studies in Administration after C. Northcote Parkinson, serious and humorous.
Photographs.

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