What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

by: David Goldberg

ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 23, No. 1. (1991), pp. 5-48.

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This paper presents a tutorial on those aspects of floating-point that have a direct impact on designers of computer systems. It begins with background on floating-point representation and rounding error, continues with a discussion of the IEEE floating-point standard, and concludes with numerous examples of how computer builders can better support floating-point.

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