Re: A book on floating-point

[Albert Chan <albertmcchan@...>]

Just forward this for Henkel

> On Jun 7, 2018, at 4:01 PM, Hartmut Henkel <hartmut_henkel@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear Albert,
> 
>> On Thu, 7 Jun 2018, Albert Chan wrote:
>> 
>> Lefèvre is also a main developer in MPFR, an arbitrary precision C library 
>> that that do correct rounding in arbitrary bits. [2]
>> 
>> [1] https://www.vinc17.net/research/extended.en.html
>> [2] https://www.mpfr.org/credit.html
> 
> FWIW, some time ago i hacked rough Lua bindings for the MPFR Library:
> 
> http://hhenkel.de/lmpfrlib/lmpfrlib.html
> 
> I tried to post this to the lua-l list, but it's rejected with error
> 550-5.7.1 by mx0.pepperfish.net (88.99.213.221) reason: 550-5.7.1
> Callback setup failed while verifying <hartmut_henkel@gmx.de>
> 
> It came already to me with a GMX spam marking, as if the Lua list is
> spam, weird. Maybe you can help and forward this to the list...
> 
> Best Regards, Hartmut