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This is the patent at issue: > Method and apparatus for handling overflow and underflow in processing floating-point numbers http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/np
by dangrossman 14y ago
This is the patent at issue:
> Method and apparatus for handling overflow and underflow in processing floating-point numbers
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,892,697.PN.&OS=PN/5,892,697&RS=PN/5,892,697 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
- lisper 14y agoThanks. But this is still perplexing: Surely, Linux just uses IEEE754 floating point, which predates this patent by 15 years?
- joksnet 14y agoUnder "Related Art" says: > In an effort to unify methods employed in computer systems for performing binary floating-point arithmetic, the IEEE in the early 1980's standardized computer floating-point numbers. > [...] > In reshaping the IEEE format, the present invention retains most of its benefits while offering the microprocessor designer and the real-time programmer a much cleaner and more efficient implementation. For what I understand, is an extension of the IEEE standard.