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Clinger, W.D., "How to read floating point numbers accurately", ACM/SIGPLAN Conference of Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI '90), While Plains, New York, USA, ACM SIGPLAN, 25, 6, pp. 92-101, June 1990. Google
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reprinted, p. 360-371 in 20 Years of the ACM/SIGPLAN Conference of Programming Language Design and Implementation (1979-1999): A selection, ACM SIGPLAN 39.4, April 2004.
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