What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

@article{citeulike:438874, abstract = {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.}, author = {Goldberg, David }, citeulike-article-id = {438874}, journal = {ACM Computing Surveys}, keywords = {computing, floating-point-arithmetic}, number = {1}, pages = {5--48}, posted-at = {2008-07-25 12:30:29}, priority = {2}, title = {What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/goldberg91what.html}, volume = {23}, year = {1991} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:438874 L3 - citeulike-article-id:438874 TI - What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic JF - ACM Computing Surveys VL - 23 IS - 1 SP - 5 EP - 48 N2 - 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. KW - computing KW - floating-point-arithmetic AU - Goldberg, David PY - 1991/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/goldberg91what.html ER -