Loss of Significance in Floating Point Subtraction and Addition
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Publication:3936107
DOI10.1109/TC.1982.1676002zbMath0478.65028MaRDI QIDQ3936107
Richard H. Goodman, Alan Feldstein
Publication date: 1982
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Computers (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/tc.1982.1676002
computer arithmetic; logarithmically distributed numbers; floating point precision and significance; uniformly distributed numbers; floating point addition and subtraction; loss of significant digits
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