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And before our master Kahan, there was Pat H. Sterbenz. I still have my "Floating Point Computation" in the photocopied bound sheaf that was handed out to numerical analysis grad students at ASU in the late 80s. I learned an enormous amount about what digital computation means in the presence of algorithms in that class.

EDIT: I have an 8087 chip always installed to sitting on my monitor base. Because Kahan.

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