Should the Elementary Function Library Be Incorporated Into Computer Instruction Sets?

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Should the Elementary Function Library Be Incorporated Into Computer Instruction Sets?

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ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS) archive
Volume 2 , Issue 2 (June 1976) table of contents

Pages: 132 - 142

Year of Publication: 1976

ISSN:0098-3500

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George Paul	IBM Corp., Scientific Computing, 1133 Westchester Ave., White Plains, NY
M. Wayne Wilson	IBM Corp., DPMG, Box 390, Building 985, Poughkeepsie, NY

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	Cheryl M. Black , Robert Burton and Thomas H. Miller, The Need for an Industry Standard of Accuracy for Elementary-Function Programs, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS), v.10 n.4, p.361-366, Dec. 1984
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