A Significance Rule for Multiple-Precision Arithmetic

DOI10.1145/356068.356076MaRDI QIDQ3704822zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. B. Jones

Publication date 1984

Published in ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1145/356068.356076

zbMATH Keywords

floating-point arithmeticguard digitsinterval arithmeticmultiple-precision arithmeticsignificance arithmeticsignificance rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interval and finite arithmetic (65G30) Roundoff error (65G50)

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(7)

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