autoconf: Floating Point Portability

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1 13.7 Floating Point Portability
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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).
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