1 1 13.7 Floating Point Portability 1 =============================== 1 1 Almost all modern systems use IEEE-754 floating point, and it is safe to 1 assume IEEE-754 in most portable code these days. For more information, 1 please see David Goldberg's classic paper What Every Computer Scientist 1 Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic 1 (http://www.validlab.com/goldberg/paper.pdf). 1