Loss of Significance in Floating Point Subtraction and Addition

DOI10.1109/TC.1982.1676002MaRDI QIDQ3936107zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alan Feldstein, R. H. Goodman

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

zbMATH Keywords

computer arithmeticfloating point addition and subtractionfloating point precision and significancelogarithmically distributed numbersloss of significant digitsuniformly distributed numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cited in

(2)

• Probabilistic error analysis of Gaussian elimination in floating point and logarithmic arithmetic
• On roundoff error distributions in floating point and logarithmic arithmetic

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