Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic
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Floating-point arithmetic is the most widely used way of implementing real-number arithmetic on modern computers. However, making such an arithmetic reliable and portable, yet fast, is a very difficult task. As a result, floating-point arithmetic is far from being exploited to its full potential. This handbook aims to provide a complete overview of modern floating-point arithmetic. So that the techniques presented can directly be put into practice in actual coding or design, they are illustrated, whenever possible, by a corresponding program in C.
The handbook is designed for programmers of numerical applications, compiler designers, programmers of floating-point algorithms, designers of arithmetic operators, and more generally, students and researchers in numerical analysis who wish to better understand a tool used in their daily work and research.
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"This handbook aims to provide a complete overview of modern floating-point arithmetic, including a detailed treatment of the newly revised IEEE 751-2008 standard for floating-point arithmetic. . This book is useful to programmers, compiler designers and students and researchers in numerical analysis." (T. C. Mohan, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1197, 2010)More details
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