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Date:      Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:34:43 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: historical stuff in math(3)
Message-ID:  <20040122122856.S10548@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <14141.1074670873@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <14141.1074670873@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> Isn't all the vax-D format related stuff math(3) getting pretty old ?

It provides some interesting historical context, and no replacements for
anything in math(3) have been written.

The main problems with math(3) is that almost all of it is about the
old BSD implementation so almost none of it except generalities about
IEEE format applies directly, and it doesn't say this anywhere.

Bruce



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