Re: Lua minus null (-0)

[Dirk Laurie <dpl@...>]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 01:48:10PM +0200, marbux wrote:
> 
> Ignoring the problems with the relevant standards organizations
> business models, might folks who are new to the arithmetic and maths
> functions benefit if both of those sections pointed to C and to IEEE
> 754 for further detail?
> 
Even if one could get to them easily, those sources are not written for 
novices.  Either the Wikipedia articles starting from
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating-point_standard
or the Goldberg article I referenced in a previous post are preferable.

Very refreshing too is
    http://babbage.cs.qc.edu/IEEE-754/References.xhtml
with lots of material, some contributed by bright students.

Dirk