Floating point is Nick Higham's thing isn't? I have his book "Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms, Second Edition" http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/

Floating point is Nick Higham's thing isn't? I have his book "Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms, Second Edition" http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/asna/ http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~higham/asna/ but I haven't got very far with it yet. Maybe the article in the Princeton Companion is a summarized version of his book?