21:57 <@matches> SVG defines a "minimum" precision of IEEE binary32
21:58 <@matches> But there's a specification for "High Quality" viewers that have to use binary64
21:58 <@matches> That's probably the only real thing relevant directly to our problem
+--- Day changed Thu May 01 2014
+01:23 <@matches> It's May 1st
+01:23 <@matches> This means we can no longer say "The Literature Review is due Next Month"
+01:23 <@matches> IT'S DUE THIS MONTH
+01:23 * matches freaks out
+01:23 <@matches> ... but after sleep
+01:25 <@matches> Page 12 of my Literature Review by the way
+01:25 <@matches> Is the only page I like
+16:34 <@matches> The C version of paranoia compiled for me
+16:34 <@matches> Not terribly exciting (I have an IEEE 754 compatible processor! Amazing)
+22:17 <@matches> W Kahan's website is a very interesting if slightly difficult read
+22:24 <@matches> He appears to have written this 80 page pdf in a day
+22:27 <@matches> It kind of reads like one of those religious propaganda pamphlets
+22:27 <@matches> "Java is the Work of Satan"
+22:27 <@matches> "Kernighan-Ritcie C floating-point semantics are the light"
+22:28 <@matches> But every so often he has a graph or example that makes him seem less crazy
+22:34 <@matches> "And now Java forbits you to mention or use extra-precise long double arithmetic, though IEEE Standard 754 recommends its use and over 95% of computers on desktops have it built into their hardware. You paid for it, but Java denies you its benefits."
+22:34 <@matches> Java has long double now right?
+22:34 <@matches> Although that JOP I was looking at was just 32 bit
+22:36 <@matches> Ah, java.lang.math.BigDecimal
+22:37 <@matches> "But be careful with division, because it will throw exceptions if it's like 1/3, then it will be Non-terminating decimal expansion."
+22:37 <@matches> That sounds horrifying
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