An Improved Algorithm for hypot(a,b)

DOI10.1145/3428446MaRDI QIDQ6317513arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Carlos Borges

Publication date 20 April 2019

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1145/3428446

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical analysis (65-XX)

arXiv classification

cs.NAmath.NA

Abstract: We develop a fast and accurate algorithm for evaluating $sqrt{a}^2+b^2$ for two floating point numbers $a$ and $b$. Library functions that perform this computation are generally named { t hypot(a,b)}. We will compare four approaches that we will develop in this paper to the current resident library function that is delivered with Julia 1.1 and to the code that has been distributed with the C math library for decades. We will demonstrate the performance of our algorithms by simulation.

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