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Goldberg, D., "The design of floating-point data types", ACM Letters on Programming Languages and Systems, 1, 2, June 1992, pp. 138-151. Google
141 ;;Quote: floating-point semantics need to allow efficient implementations with strict error bounds for proving algorithms correct
148 ;;Quote: floating point in Modula-3 supports forward error analysis with precisely defined rounding operations and exception handling
148+;;Quote: Modula-3 provides three fixed floating-point types for efficiency: real, longreal, and extended
149 ;;Quote: Modula-3 allows implicit conversion only if it can be implemented by bit-copy; e.g., 'cardinal' to 'integer' but not 'real' to 'longreal'
149 ;;Quote: Modula-3's strict conversions requires separate representations for real, longreal, and extended literals; makes it difficult to write generic procedures
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