Clarification: The opening few slides (titled “who is NOT using floating point numbers”) contain a list of prominent software that uses floating-point. The author is not an idiot. Presumably this was more clear with the verbal portion of the talk intact, but it would appear to be rhetorical device: “who uses floating point? It would be easier to list who doesn’t; lots of prominent software uses floating-point…”
If you don’t know who Paul Zimmermann is, you may safely assume that he knows more about floating-point than you do (actually that he knows more about computer arithmetic than you do). While there may well be errors or typos in the slides, it’s far more likely that you are misinterpreting something without the context of the talk that went along with them.
If you don’t know who Paul Zimmermann is, you may safely assume that he knows more about floating-point than you do (actually that he knows more about computer arithmetic than you do). While there may well be errors or typos in the slides, it’s far more likely that you are misinterpreting something without the context of the talk that went along with them.