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Header-only library implementing deterministic floating point

5 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2024-10-10 · latest 2026-07-12

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  1. …is essentially ubiquitous and compilers/standard libraries are improving their implementations. [0] https://github.com/J-Montgomery/rfloat
    comment by AlotOfReading · 2026-07-12 · in Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS
  2. …be a distant memory once you've ensured same inputs to the same instructions in the same order. [0] https://github.com/J-Montgomery/rfloat [1] https://github.com/sixitbb/sixit-dmath
    comment by AlotOfReading · 2026-04-19 · in It's OK to compare floating-points for equality
  3. …middle is C and however you want to categorize FASM. [0] https://github.com/sixitbb/sixit-dmath [1] https://github.com/J-Montgomery/rfloat
    comment by AlotOfReading · 2025-12-10 · in Dependable C
  4. …in libm. For example, LLVM will incorrectly round sqrt on ppc64el in some unusual circumstances: https://github.com/J-Montgomery/rfloat/blob/8a58367db32807c8...
    comment by AlotOfReading · 2025-02-11 · in Elementary Functions and Not Following IEEE754 Floating-Point Standard (2020)
  5. …ww.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p33... [1] https://github.com/sixitbb/sixit-dmath [2] https://github.com/J-Montgomery/rfloat/
    comment by AlotOfReading · 2024-10-10 · in The strict aliasing situation is pretty bad (2016)