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::Well perhaps you could explain why you want so many digits in yourself. Having a load of unnecessary digits just encourages people to add extra ones as far as I can see as a kind of pointy comment on the length. Why did you want some digits in grey past the first seven in bold and do we really need thirty digits to see the difference? [[User:Dmcq|Dmcq]] ([[User talk:Dmcq|talk]]) 23:45, 5 October 2011 (UTC) [[User:Dmcq|Dmcq]] ([[User talk:Dmcq|talk]]) 23:45, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
== Software of book side of history ==
I just reverted a bit about the Pilot Ace in history because it used software to emulate floating point. However it occrs to me that there might be something worthwhile in the bit about J.H.Wilkinson, ''Rounding errors in algebraic processes''. Is there evidence about who wrote a book about floating point or that this was a particular turning point? [[User:Dmcq|Dmcq]] ([[User talk:Dmcq|talk]]) 18:46, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
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