An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-PointAn Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point Reminiscences elicited from William Kahan by Charles Severance 20 Feb. 1998 This interview underlies an abbreviated version to appear in the March 1998 issue of IEEE Computer. Introduction If you were a programmer of floating-point computations on different computers in the 1960's and 1970's, you had to cope with a wide variety of floating-point hard
