Re: Motion 31: V04.2 Revision of proposed Level 1 text
On 2012-02-21 09:14:29 +0100, Ulrich Kulisch wrote:
> The dot product is a fundamental operation in Numerical Analysis.
Not for everyone. If it were so important, it would have been
required in IEEE 754-2008. And most languages don't even have
a dot product function.
> When Motion 9 had passed UKVS prepared a shortened version of the text. I
> attach it to this mail. I personally would be satisfied getting complete
> arithmetic for the 64 bit IEEE 754 floating-point format(s) in the first
> round. But I hesitate resp. would not recommend requiring it for a
> floating-point format of which the definition is not well known (GPU).
GPU are starting to support IEEE 754 double precision. I wonder
whether resources needed for complete arithmetic would be OK for
a GPU.
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