Special Feature an Implementation Guide to a Proposed Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic

1 January 1980

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Computer

Vol. 13 (1), 68-79
https://doi.org/10.1109/mc.1980.1653344

Abstract

This guide to an IEEE draft standard provides practical algorithms for floating-point arithmetic operations and suggests the hardware/software mix for handling exceptions.

Keywords

FLOATING-POINT ARITHMETIC
SOFTWARE STANDARDS
HARDWARE
SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE
H INFINITY CONTROL
MICROCOMPUTERS
PROGRAMMING PROFESSION
SOFTWARE ALGORITHMS
DOCUMENT HANDLING

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