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May 23, 2005
IEEE 754 Floating Point
Given its importance, there is a surprisingly small amount of literature concerning floating point arithmetic. Here are a collection of links to good information about the IEEE 754 standard.- William Kahan's site at Berkeley.
- Original version of What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic by David Goldberg, ACM Computing Surveys, pp. 5-48, vol. 23, no. 1, 1991. Sun's version with Dale Priest's "Differences Among IEEE 754 Implementations" supplement.
- John Hauser's softfloat and testfloat software implementation and test program. Also see his paper Handling floating-point exceptions in numeric programs
- On Properties of Floating Point Arithmetics: Numerical Stability and the Cost of Accurate Computation - Doug Priest
- Nelson Beebe's collection of floating point test software
- Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne's notes give a good overview of some of the practical issues concerning floating point.
Posted by phwl at May 23, 2005 04:38 PM