Loss of Significance in Floating Point Subtraction and Addition

DOI10.1109/TC.1982.1676002zbMath0478.65028OpenAlexW1826593932MaRDI QIDQ3936107

Richard H. Goodman, Alan Feldstein

Publication date: 1982

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Computers (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/tc.1982.1676002

zbMATH Keywords

computer arithmeticlogarithmically distributed numbersfloating point precision and significanceuniformly distributed numbersfloating point addition and subtractionloss of significant digits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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