It gets WORSE. Here's a quote from “The Birth of a Computer” in BYTE Magazine, February 1985, an interview with J.H. Wilkinson, noted numerical slouch, on the Manchester machines ca 1949 (p. 178):
>They were fixed point, but one of the earliest things that I did (at Turing’s request) was to program a set of subroutines for doing floating-point arithmetic.
So we ought to scale to better ourselves with self-study, meanwhile one of the first errands TURING send WILKINSON on was to rid themselves of this duty. ;)
