On roundoff error distributions in floating point and logarithmic arithmetic

DOI10.1007/BF02251833zbMATH Open0556.65036OpenAlexW90649232MaRDI QIDQ761018FDOQ761018

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

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3854308
• Probability Analysis of Round-Off Errors in Floating-Point Arithmetic
• scientific article
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4111908
• The distribution of rounding errors in numerical algorithms realized on computers
• A statistical model of roundoff error for varying length floating-point arithmetic
• Rigorous roundoff error analysis of probabilistic floating-point computations
• Probabilistic error analysis of Gaussian elimination in floating point and logarithmic arithmetic

zbMATH Keywords

comparisonsumsinner productsfloating point arithmeticProbabilistic modelsroundoff errorserror confidence intervalslogarithmic arithmetic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Roundoff error (65G50)

Cites Work

• Beyond Floating Point
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• On the Distribution of First Significant Digits
• On the Probability that a Random Integer has Initial Digit A
• On the Distribution of Numbers
• Convergence Estimates for the Distribution of Trailing Digits
• Probabilistic error analysis of Gaussian elimination in floating point and logarithmic arithmetic
• Round-off error in products
• Effect of guard digits and normalization options on floating point multiplication
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Further Revelations on L.S.D.
• Improved Trailing Digits Estimates Applied to Optimal Computer Arithmetic
• Loss of Significance in Floating Point Subtraction and Addition
• The Distribution of Leading Significant Digits
• On the Distribution of First Significant Figures

Cited In (24)

• Distributions of floating point numbers
• Probabilistic rounding error analysis of modified Gram-Schmidt
• Probability Analysis of Round-Off Errors in Floating-Point Arithmetic
• First digit law from Laplace transform
• ROUND-OFF ERRORS IN FLOATING-POINT ADDITIONS
• Semantics of roundoff error propagation in finite precision calculations
• On the definition of unit roundoff
• A basic theory of Benford's law
• On a law of the iterated logarithm for sums mod 1 with application to Benford's law
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Gradual and tapered overflow and underflow: A functional differential equation and its approximation
• Overflow and underflow in multiplication and division
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• A statistical model of roundoff error for varying length floating-point arithmetic
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Number shortening algorithms
• Some models of relative error in products
• Round-off errors andp-adic numbers
• Relative error in floating-point multiplication
• Remarks on Gödel's code as a hash function
• Determination and checking of floating-point arithmetic errors in IBM PC
• Probabilistic Error Analysis for Inner Products
• Title not available (Why is that?)

This page was built for publication: On roundoff error distributions in floating point and logarithmic arithmetic

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q761018)