Table driven Newton scheme for high precision logarithm generation

DOI10.1049/IP-CDT:19941268MaRDI QIDQ4322311zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors M. Zhang, José G. Delgado-Frias, Stamatis Vassiliadis

Publication date 2 May 1995

Published in IEE Proceedings - Computers and Digital Techniques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1049/ip-cdt:19941268

zbMATH Keywords

high performancehigh precisionlogarithm functionNewton methodparallel computationtable driven iterative scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exponential and trigonometric functions (33B10) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Complexity and performance of numerical algorithms (65Y20)

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