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Ivan Godard
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February 13, 2018 at 5:19 pm
Post count: 689
#3207

Actually, very very early the Mill had a stochastic (dithered) rounding mode. Then I became a member of the IEEE-754 (FP standard) committee and the others convinced me that it was a bad idea. I’m not enough of a numerics guy to explain why to someone else, but we accepted the opinion of the FP mavens on the committee and dropped it.