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Fast evaluation of elementary mathematical functions with correctly rounded last bit

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ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS) archive
Volume 17 , Issue 3 (September 1991) table of contents

Pages: 410 - 423

Year of Publication: 1991

ISSN:0098-3500

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Abraham Ziv

IBM Israel, Haifa, Israel

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	Florent de Dinechin , Christoph Quirin Lauter , Guillaume Melquiond, Assisted verification of elementary functions using Gappa, Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing, April 23-27, 2006, Dijon, France
	Laurent Fousse , Guillaume Hanrot , Vincent Lefèvre , Patrick Pélissier , Paul Zimmermann, MPFR: A multiple-precision binary floating-point library with correct rounding, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS), v.33 n.2, p.13-es, June 2007
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
G. Mathematics of Computing
G.1 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
G.1.0 General
Subjects: Numerical algorithms

Additional Classification:
G. Mathematics of Computing
G.1 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
G.1.2 Approximation
Subjects: Elementary function approximation
G.4 MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE
Subjects: Efficiency

General Terms:
Algorithms, Standardization, Theory

Keywords:
compatibility, correct rounding, mathematical library

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The variety of rounding rules used for elementary mathematical function routines makes it difficult to use different routines and obtain the same values up to the last bit. The technique proposed here to obtain correct function values (given a more...

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