Improved Trailing Digits Estimates Applied to Optimal Computer Arithmetic

DOI10.1145/322154.322162MaRDI QIDQ3867041zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alan Feldstein, R. H. Goodman, Seppo Linnainmaa, J. Bustoz

Publication date 1979

Published in Journal of the ACM (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1145/322154.322162

zbMATH Keywords

computer arithmeticfloating-point multiplicationfloating-point numbersfloating-point precision and significance, fraction errorguard digitslogarithmically distributed numbersmean and standard deviation of errornonleading digitsnormalization optionsroundoff errortrailing digitsuniformly distributed numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Roundoff error (65G50) Theory of software (68N99)

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(6)

• Relative error in floating-point multiplication
• Probabilistic error analysis of Gaussian elimination in floating point and logarithmic arithmetic
• Some models of error in floating point multiplication
• Number shortening algorithms
• On roundoff error distributions in floating point and logarithmic arithmetic
• Some models of relative error in products

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