Re: specfunc error analysis - generated and propagated errors.

["Robert G. Brown" <rgb at phy dot duke dot edu>]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Brian Gough wrote:

> C J Kenneth Tan -- OptimaNumerics writes:
>  > I wonder what your view may be, about code running on supercomputers.
>  > Will you still recommend the approach of Gottbrath et al?  
> 
> Well, I guess it would make sense to check the value of the exponent
> in Moore's law before going to the beach.

Wow.  That's profound!  I love it!

That belongs in a .signature somewhere...;-)

I'll have to drop it into casual conversation on the beowulf list
sometime (as if I invented it, naturally:-).  Or maybe in a Cluster
World column. :-)

  rgb

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  Well, I guess it would make sense to check the value of the exponent
  in Moore's law before going to the beach.

                                    -- Brian Gough