On the definition of unit roundoff
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: On the definition of unit roundoff
zbMATH Open document ID: 1342.65123
author: M. Lange
author: Siegfried M. Rump
published in: BIT
publication date: 2016-05-19T00:00:00Z
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.
reviewed by: Constantin Popa
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 65G50
zbMATH DE Number: 6582322
zbMATH Keywords: floating-point number
zbMATH Keywords: IEEE 754
zbMATH Keywords: rounding
zbMATH Keywords: tie-breaking rule
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MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: s10543-015-0554-0
OpenAlex ID: W2032140442
cites work: Beyond Floating Point
cites work: Q3829044
cites work: Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms
cites work: Q4349924
cites work: The Sign/Logarithm Number System
DOI: 10.1007/S10543-015-0554-0
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6582322