On the distributions of significant digits and roundoff errors

DOI10.1145/360980.360998zbMath0276.65020OpenAlexW1966956614MaRDI QIDQ4403251

Nai-Kuan Tsao

Publication date: 1974

Published in: Communications of the ACM (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/360980.360998

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Roundoff error (65G50) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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