Share 'What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point'

In a private discussion compliance with IEEE-754 came up. Being a hardware guy, I love that stuff, so here is a paper that I typically point people to when they ask about the issues surrounding floating point math. The second paper is a nice historical paper with good references. One of the reasons that GPUs (and Cray Vector machines) have more raw performance compared to an x86 is that they pla…