Phobos unit testing uncovers a CPU bug
    Walter Bright 
    newshound2 at digitalmars.com
       
    Sun Nov 28 11:15:41 PST 2010
    
    
  
Kagamin wrote:
> Don Wrote:
> 
>> The Intel CPU gives the correct answer, but AMD's is wrong. They should 
>> both give the correct result.
> 
> Really? I think, the answer is neither correct nor wrong. It's approximate.
The rules for rounding the mathematical value to the representation are precise, 
and so there is such a thing as the correctly rounded result and the wrong result.
An FPU should strive to always produce the correctly rounded result.
    
    
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