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A Portable Extended Precision Arithmetic Package and Library with Fortran Precompiler

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ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS) archive
Volume 2 , Issue 3 (September 1976) table of contents

Pages: 209 - 231

Year of Publication: 1976

ISSN:0098-3500

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W. T. Wyatt, Jr.	Harry, Diamond Laboratories, Adelphi, MD
D. W. Lozier	Mathematical Analysis Section, Institute Basic Standards, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
D. J. Orser	Mathematical Analysis Section, Institute Basic Standards, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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