An example in “significant-digit” arithmetic

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An example in “significant-digit” arithmetic

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

Page: 21

Year of Publication: 1964

ISSN:0001-0782

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R. H. Miller

Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Different methods of handling the summing process for the geometric series are shown to give results indicating widely differing significances when carried out in a machine incorporating “significant-digit” arithmetic.

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