466 c H ~: ~::~ ~ E ~ ~:~ Floating-Point Representation, Algorithms, and Implementations
the exponent, the range and representation of the significand and of the expo-
nent, as well as the definition and representation of special cases. Although these
parameters can be optimized for a particular application, the tendency today is to
use the IEEE Floating-Point Arithmetic Standard 754 (ANSI and IEEE 1985).
This provides portability among systems and assures that experts have consid-
ered the possible anomalies and designed a good compromise among the different
characteristics.
The algorithms and implementations of the basic operations ...
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