[libre-riscv-dev] [isa-dev] Re: FP transcendentals (trigonometry, root/exp/log) proposal

[lkcl]

On Thursday, August 8, 2019 at 8:56:44 PM UTC+8, lkcl wrote:


> What I do not know is whether there was something unique about the 370 mainframe and applications being written for it, or, if now in 2019, this is sufficiently well understood such that all FP applications writers have properly taken *better* accuracy (not worse accuracy: *better* accuracy) into consideration in the design of their programs.

I *think* this is what Andrew might have been trying to get across.

L.