Kahan on creating IEEE Standard Floating Point

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Kahan explains his role in creating the IEEE 754 floating-point standard and its connection to the 8087 chip.

Linked by 2 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including wikipedia.org, mathworks.com.

Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including IEEE 754.