Shit HN Says: the adjunct professor at CMU who's designing floating point hardware for processors is "totally stupid." I'm guessing he intentionally underspeci

Shit HN Says: the adjunct professor at CMU who's designing floating point hardware for processors is "totally stupid." I'm guessing he intentionally underspecified for his audience, and if asked, could tell you in excruciating detail what 1% error means. But skimming the patent [1], it seems that there's sometimes an error in a mathematical operation, measured as the computed value minus the expected value. The result doesn't seem surprising if you read how he defined addition in his hardware. [1]: http://www.google.com/patents/US8150902 http://www.google.com/patents/US8150902