A Proposed Radix- and Word-length-independent Standard for Floating-point Arithmetic

William J. Cody, Jerome T. Coonen, David Gay, K. Hanson, D. Hough, W. Kahan, Richard H. Karpinski, J. Palmer, F. Ris, D. Stevenson

IEEE Micro · 1984 · 55 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

Besides making the proposed IEEE 854 standard available for comment, this article explains how to overcome some of its implementation problems.

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