To: validgh!numeric-interest@uunet.UU.NET
Subject: Re: Base Conversion Report from Vern Paxson
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 91 15:23:55 PDT
From: Vern Paxson <vern@horse.ee.lbl.gov>
David Hough wrote:
> Vern did a base conversion test program as a class project for Kahan this
> spring ...
He is being too modest. I would like to clarify that David wrote the bulk
of the program. I added an implementation of the algorithm for finding
"worst-case" inputs that was developed by Tim Peters and appeared on this
list a few months back. I then ran the program on a number of different
machines and summarize in the paper results for tests of single and double
ftp.ee.lbl.gov (128.3.112.20). Retrieve testbase.tar.Z (140KB) and
testbase-report.ps.Z (117KB), using binary mode.
Vern
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