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And for dessert, a link to the interview I did in 1997 with Prof. William
Kahan who did the math for the Intel 8088 coproc which became IEEE_754-1985.

A Conversation with William Kahan : How important is numerical accuracy?
<https://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/a-conversation-with-william-kahan/184410314>

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 9:48 AM Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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