Overflow, Underflow, and Severe Loss of Significance in Floating-Point Addition and Subtraction

DOI10.1093/imanum/6.2.241zbMath0593.65029OpenAlexW2021348401MaRDI QIDQ3723599

Alan Feldstein, Peter R. Turner

Publication date: 1986

Published in: IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/imanum/6.2.241

zbMATH Keywords

overflowunderflowcomputer designfloating-point addition and subtractionsevere loss of significance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Roundoff error (65G50) Theory of software (68N99)

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