Floating-point arithmetic with 84-bit numbers

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Floating-point arithmetic with 84-bit numbers

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 7 , Issue 1 (January 1964) table of contents

Pages: 10 - 13

Year of Publication: 1964

ISSN:0001-0782

Authors

Robert T. Gregory	Univ. of Texas, Austin
James L. Raney	Univ. of Texas, Austin

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

A classic and straightforward technique is presented which is not limited to the size or type of number representation used or multiple precision arithmetic.

CITED BY

Yasuhiko Ikebe, Note on triple-precision floating-point arithmetic with 132-bit numbers, Communications of the ACM, v.8 n.3, p.175-177, March 1965

INDEX TERMS

Classification:
F. Theory of Computation
F.2 ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS AND PROBLEM COMPLEXITY
F.2.1 Numerical Algorithms and Problems
Subjects: Number-theoretic computations (e.g., factoring, primality testing)

G. Mathematics of Computing
G.1 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
G.1.0 General
Subjects: Computer arithmetic