On the definition of unit roundoff

DOI10.1007/S10543-015-0554-0MaRDI QIDQ285290zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Lange, Siegfried M. Rump

Publication date 19 May 2016

Published in BIT (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10543-015-0554-0

zbMATH Keywords

floating-point numberIEEE 754roundingtie-breaking rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Roundoff error (65G50)

Review text

The authors consider the general problem of best approximating a real number with elements from a given finite set of numbers. In this context they identify a special rounding rule for floating point arithmetic, which minimizes the error with respect to the computed result.

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