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 Some of the IEEE standards accepted into common use: 
  
 __IEEE 754__ 
  
- A standard for computer manipulation of FloatingPoint numbers, rounding behaviour under various calculations etc. Commonplace on computer hardware these days, and it’s hard to believe that, before this came along, getting meaningful results from numerical calculations involved some quite amazing voodoo black magic. See the foreword by Professor William Kahan to the ''Apple Numerics Manual, 2nd ed'' (ISBN -201-17738-2) for descriptions of some of this. 
+ A standard for computer manipulation of FloatingPoint numbers, rounding behaviour under various calculations etc. Commonplace on computer hardware these days, and it’s hard to believe that, before this came along, getting meaningful results from numerical calculations involved some quite amazing voodoo black magic. See the [ foreword by Professor William Kahan|http://groups.google.co.nz/group/comp.lang.python/msg/5aaf5dd86cb00651] to the ''Apple Numerics Manual, 2nd ed'' (ISBN -201-17738-2) for descriptions of some of this. 
  
 __IEEE [802]__ 
  
  A grouping for a whole bunch of standards governing local-area networking, including Ethernet and Wi-Fi.