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Design of x87 floating point instructions, circa 1977
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Forward to the Past: The Case for Uniformly Strict Floating Point Arithmetic on the JVM
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- 1 Intro
- 2 Overview
- 3 Specifications and semantics Java source code
- 4 The games of mathematics
- 5 Levels of floating point
- 6 Encoding and decoding IEEE 754 floating-point
- 7 Round to nearest even rounding mode, illustrated
- 8 Fun facts about floating-point arithmetic
- 9 Completing floating point arithmetic
- 10 Design of x87 floating point instructions, circa 1977
- 11 A potential problem or a real problem?
- 12 Toy example
- 13 Abbreviated & abridged history of Java FP Proposals
- 14 Features of default floating-point semantics
- 15 Complexity in semantics or code generation
- 16 JEP 306: Restore always strict floating point semantics
- 17 Example: fused multiply add (fma)
