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Forth PARANOIA 43 24 (5/20/2009 5:39:30 PM) comp.lang.forth O.k. That was a little gimmick to get your attention! I have ported William Kahan's program "paranoia", a floating point arithmetic tester, to Forth. Someone, ... Anton, I believe, made the point in an earli... Krishna

erf in Forth 11 24 (5/17/2009 1:00:59 PM) comp.lang.forth Going through the list of special functions available in the Forth Scientific Library (FSL), one significant omission appears to be the "error function": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_function Does an... Krishna

Cfv: Floating point truncation 4 30 (5/15/2009 1:13:18 PM) comp.lang.forth This is actually a poll about how widely the proposal is implemented and how popular it is among the programmers. It is called a CfV (call-for-votes) because the process is inspired by the Usenet Rdf/CfV proc... Krishna

to-float-test.fs 0 35 (5/9/2009 1:35:28 AM) comp.lang.forth \ to-float-test.fs \ \ Test Forth-94 compliance for >FLOAT \ \ by "Ed" on comp.lang.forth \ \ Revisions: \ 2009-05-07 ed; created \ 2009-05-08 km; modified to use ttester.fs; the ttester \ ... Krishna

fpzero-test.fs 25 19 (5/6/2009 9:22:05 AM) comp.lang.forth \ fpzero-test.fs \ \ Check whether or not basic operations with floating point signed zero in a \ Forth system are compatible with IEEE 754 arithmetic \ \ Krishna Myneni \ \ Revisions: \ 2009-05-05 km; creat... Krishna

inconsistent behavior of >FLOAT 57 23 (5/4/2009 12:24:36 PM) comp.lang.forth The word >FLOAT from the floating point word set appears to have inconsistent behavior on different Forth systems for the case of a string with zero length: s" " >FLOAT There is exactly one space between t... Krishna

Rfd: FNEGATE specification for signed zero 5 27 (5/1/2009 3:16:08 AM) comp.lang.forth RfD: FNEGATE specification for signed zero Author: Krishna Myneni Version 0 -- 30 April 2009 Problem ======= The ANS Forth standard does not currently specify the behavior of FNEGATE for floating point... Krishna

Rfd: floating point truncation V2.2 1 23 (4/28/2009 12:45:57 PM) comp.lang.forth RfD: Floating point truncation Author: Krishna Myneni Version 2.2 -- 28 April 2009 Version 2.1 -- 25 April 2009 Version 2 -- 24 April 2009 Version 1 -- 15 April 2009 Version 0 -- 10 April 2009 Proble... Krishna

Rfd: floating point truncation V2 4 26 (4/24/2009 1:08:57 PM) comp.lang.forth RfD: Floating point truncation Author: Krishna Myneni Version 2 -- 24 April 2009 Version 1 -- 15 April 2009 Version 0 -- 10 April 2009 Problem ======= In practice, floating point calculations sometimes re... Krishna

Rfd: floating point truncation V1 39 23 (4/16/2009 4:38:37 AM) comp.lang.forth RfD: Floating point truncation Author: Krishna Myneni Version 1 -- 15 April 2009 Version 0 -- 10 April 2009 Problem ======= In practice, floating point calculations sometimes require rounding of a floati... Krishna

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Cfv: Floating point truncation 4 30 (5/15/2009 1:13:18 PM) comp.lang.forth This is actually a poll about how widely the proposal is implemented and how popular it is among the programmers. It is called a CfV (call-for-votes) because the process is inspired by the Usenet Rdf/CfV proc... krishnamyneni1 (412)

erf in Forth 11 24 (5/17/2009 1:00:59 PM) comp.lang.forth Going through the list of special functions available in the Forth Scientific Library (FSL), one significant omission appears to be the "error function": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_function Does an... krishnamyneni1 (412)

Forth PARANOIA 43 24 (5/20/2009 5:39:30 PM) comp.lang.forth O.k. That was a little gimmick to get your attention! I have ported William Kahan's program "paranoia", a floating point arithmetic tester, to Forth. Someone, ... Anton, I believe, made the point in an earli... krishnamyneni1 (412)

How are immediate words indicated? precedence bit? 15 30 (6/5/2009 5:16:46 PM) comp.lang.forth A while back, I implemented an ITC interpreter in C for a personal project. Since I no longer need this FORTH-like interpreter for it's original purpose, I'm considering repurposing the interpreter to become an... do_not_have1182 (186)

Rfd: FNEGATE specification for signed zero 5 27 (5/1/2009 3:16:08 AM) comp.lang.forth RfD: FNEGATE specification for signed zero Author: Krishna Myneni Version 0 -- 30 April 2009 Problem ======= The ANS Forth standard does not currently specify the behavior of FNEGATE for floating point... krishnamyneni1 (412)

RfD: Ambiguity in FATAN2 version 1.2 1 18 (5/3/2009 1:42:38 AM) comp.lang.forth RfD: Ambiguity in FATAN2 version 1.2 Problem The ANS definition is: 12.6.2.1489 FATAN2 f-a-tan-two FLOATING EXT ( F: r1 r2 -- r3 ) or ( r1 r2 -- r3 ) r3 is the radian angle whose tangent is r1/r2. ... cgm (171)

inconsistent behavior of >FLOAT 57 23 (5/4/2009 12:24:36 PM) comp.lang.forth The word >FLOAT from the floating point word set appears to have inconsistent behavior on different Forth systems for the case of a string with zero length: s" " >FLOAT There is exactly one space between t... krishnamyneni1 (412)

fpzero-test.fs 25 19 (5/6/2009 9:22:05 AM) comp.lang.forth \ fpzero-test.fs \ \ Check whether or not basic operations with floating point signed zero in a \ Forth system are compatible with IEEE 754 arithmetic \ \ Krishna Myneni \ \ Revisions: \ 2009-05-05 km; creat... krishnamyneni1 (412)

Decision-table implementation ? 4 30 (5/7/2009 2:31:48 PM) comp.lang.forth I was looking at some nightmare code with many deeply nested if/then/eles-s. Even with highly readable Oberon[Pascal-like] and with all the different nestings in a different colour it's not managable ! AFAICR... AliBama (28)

What should 0E FNEGATE F0< return? 8 26 (5/10/2009 6:49:51 PM) comp.lang.forth The title says it all.. Any answers? Hans Bezemer ... hansoft (442)