MathGroup Archive: June 2001 [00208]

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AMD vs. Intel Floating Point

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Subject: [mg29370] AMD vs. Intel Floating Point
From: "Kofi Anim-Appiah" <kofi at ti.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:23:40 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Texas Instruments
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Has anyone experienced any floating-point problems on systems using any of
the AMD processors (Duron, Athlon, Thunderbird)? I'm considering buying a
new processor and would like to know if the AMDs are as accurate with
floating point math as the Pentiums

Thanks.

Kofi

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