Towards sensible floating-point arithmetic

Title: Towards sensible floating-point arithmetic

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Efforts to promote the development of high-quality transportable numerical software show that few, if any, of the floating-point arithmetic systems in existing computers are completely satisfactory for serious numerical computation. Examination of the defects in these systems leads to specifications for a sensible floating-point system from a numerical analyst's viewpoint. 1 table.

Authors:: Cody, W.J.

Publication Date:: 1980-01-01

Research Org.:: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)

OSTI Identifier:: 5515853

Report Number(s):: CONF-800201-7

DOE Contract Number:: W-31-109-ENG-38

Resource Type:: Conference

Resource Relation:: Conference: COMPCON 1980, San Francisco, CA, USA, 25 Feb 1980

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; DIGITAL COMPUTERS; CALCULATION METHODS; ALGORITHMS; DESIGN; PLANNING; PROGRAMMING; COMPUTERS; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; 990200* - Mathematics & Computers

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