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 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 precision conversion. I've made the program and the paper available via anonymous ftp to ftp.ee.lbl.gov (128.3.112.20). Retrieve testbase.tar.Z (140KB) and testbase-report.ps.Z (117KB), using binary mode. Vern