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

[lkcl .]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 2:51 PM Andrew Waterman
<waterman at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> That story might have roots in IBM's alternate base-16 floating-point format, but in any case, that wasn't the point I was trying to make.  I stand by my first message to this thread.

what point were you trying to make?  i don't understand it.  or, i see
the words: i just don't understand the implications, which seem
extreme and illogical.  so i must be missing something.

l.