Re: A New Floating Point Arithmetic with Error Tracking Capability

[[I have added a cross-post to comp.arch.arithmetic, and directed
further followups there.]]

chengpu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Please visit my post at http://xxx.soton.ac.uk/abs/cs.DM/0606103
about
> the following paper abstract:
> 
> A new floating point arithmetic called the precision arithmetic is
> developed to track, limit, and reject the ac***ulation of calculation
> errors during floating point calculations, by reinterpreting the
> polymorphic representation of the conventional floating point
> arithmetic. [[...]]

How does this differ from the unnormalized floating point arithmetic
described in Knuth v.2 (2nd edition) section 4.2.2B and references
therein?

ciao,

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