A proposed radix- and word-length-independent standard for floating-point arithmetic
William J. Cody, Jerome T. Coonen, D. M. Gay, K. Hanson, D. Hough, W. Kahan, Richard H. Karpinski, J. Palmer, Frederic N. Ris, D. Stevenson · ACM SIGNUM Newsletter · 1985
The Microprocessor Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society sponsors two groups drafting proposed standard for floating-point arithmetic. The first, Task P754, reported Draft 10.0 of a Proposed Standard for Binary Floating-point Arithmetic out of committee in December. 1982. That document is now a de facto standard and is progressing slowly through the approval process within the IEEE Computer Society.