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Computer Arithmetic and Validity
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Computer Arithmetic and Validity

by Ulrich Kulisch
April 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
456 pages
16h 7m
English
De Gruyter
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186 Chapter 5 Floating-point arithmetic
the time of the megaflops computer a conventional error analysis was recommended
in every numerical analysis textbook. Today the PC is a gigaflops computer. For the
teraflops or petaflops computer conventional error analysis is no longer practical. An
avalanche of numbers is produced when a petaflops computer runs. If the numbers
processed in one hour were to be printed (500 on one page, 1000 on one sheet, 1000
sheets 10 cm high) they would need a pile of paper that reaches from the earth to the
sun and back. Computing indeed has already reached astronomical dimensions!
This brings to the fore the question of whether ...
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ISBN: 9783110301731