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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
Content preview from Computer Arithmetic and Validity
192 Chapter 6 Implementation of floating-point arithmetic on a computer
studied in preceding chapters. We do not derive algorithms for these op-
erations because they are simple and offer no difficulties in principle pro-
vided the level 1 routines are available and the operations are clearly de-
fined.
6.1 A brief review of the realization of integer arithmetic
This part of the book deals with floating-point arithmetic. Floating-point arithmetic is
based on integer arithmetic. The implementation of integer arithmetic on computers
is only of secondary significance here. Good books on the topic, for instance [328],
are available. However, some basic apprec ...
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