I don’t think that’s an accurate assessment. Kahan, the “father” of IEEE 754, is a professor and Turing award recipient. The designers of Intel’s 8087 were infl

I don’t think that’s an accurate assessment. Kahan, the “father” of IEEE 754, is a professor and Turing award recipient. The designers of Intel’s 8087 were influenced by his writing. Here’s a bit of a history of it, with gripping subtitles such as “The Battle over Gradual Underflow” and “The Showdown”, and this conclusion from Kahan: “In the usual standards meetings everybody wants to grandfather in his own product. I think it is nice to have at least one example -- IEEE 754 is one -- where sleaze did not triumph.” https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754story.html https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754st...