On: The Floppy Disk of Floating Point

[jacquesm]

I think the sigil for 'raise to the power of' got dropped in that line, rather than that the author did not understand what it did.

[FabHK → jacquesm]

The author then continues: "a kind of pauper’s fused multiply-add", so I'm afraid your interpretation is too charitable.

[jacquesm → FabHK]

Ah yes, good point. So maybe it already got dropped further upstream.