On roundoff error distributions in floating point and logarithmic arithmetic

DOI10.1007/BF02251833MaRDI QIDQ761018zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. H. Bareiss, Jesse L. Barlow

Publication date 1985

Published in Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02251833

zbMATH Keywords

comparisonsumsinner productsfloating point arithmeticProbabilistic modelsroundoff errorserror confidence intervalslogarithmic arithmetic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Roundoff error (65G50)

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