2267	 Algorithms To Reveal Properties of Floating-Point Arithmetic	 Two algorithms are presented in the form of Fortran subroutines. Each subroutine computes the radix and number of digits of the floating-point numbers and whether rounding or chopping is done by the machine on which it is run. The methods are shown to work on any reasonable floating-point computer. floating-point arithmetic high-level languages philosophy of language design
