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  • David Williams' Proposal for Optional IEEE 754 FP Word Sets

    From Krishna Myneni@krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org to comp.lang.forth on Wed May 6 16:14:02 2026
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    Since David's original webpages no longer appear to be accessible I have placed his last version (v0.5.5) of his IEEE 754 floation-point word
    set(s) on my website. A subset of files from his folder, relevant to the
    above proposal, are located at the link below.

    https://ccreweb.org/documents/programming/forth/standards/forth-200x/proposals/ieee-fp/dnw/

    Please see the readme.txt file in this directory for an explanation of
    its contents.

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    Krishna Myneni



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  • From Krishna Myneni@krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org to comp.lang.forth on Wed May 6 16:16:02 2026
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    On 5/6/26 4:14 PM, Krishna Myneni wrote:
    Since David's original webpages no longer appear to be accessible I have placed his last version (v0.5.5) of his IEEE 754 floation-point word

    uggh, "floating-point" not "floation-point".

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    KM





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  • From minforth@minforth@gmx.net to comp.lang.forth on Mon May 11 12:20:36 2026
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    Am 06.05.2026 um 23:14 schrieb Krishna Myneni:
    Since David's original webpages no longer appear to be accessible I have placed his last version (v0.5.5) of his IEEE 754 floation-point word
    set(s) on my website. A subset of files from his folder, relevant to the above proposal, are located at the link below.

    https://ccreweb.org/documents/programming/forth/standards/forth-200x/ proposals/ieee-fp/dnw/

    Please see the readme.txt file in this directory for an explanation of
    its contents.
    I am really impressed by all the good work put into these tests.
    Also since the standard Forth test suite for fp-numbers is only
    rudimentary.

    Just for completeness (and because it is a bit out of my realm):

    Are there any differences between the Forth test results and the results obtained by C standard libraries math.h and float.h ?
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