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ASAP
2004
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Decimal Floating-Point Division Using Newton-Raphson Iteration
Decreasing feature sizes allow additional functionality to be added to future microprocessors to improve the performance of important application domains. As a result of rapid gro...
Liang-Kai Wang, Michael J. Schulte
ARITH
2001
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Decimal Floating-Point Specification
Michael F. Cowlishaw, Eric M. Schwarz, Ronald M. S...
ASAP
2010
IEEE
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13 years 6 months ago
Implementing decimal floating-point arithmetic through binary: Some suggestions
We propose several algorithms and provide some related results that make it possible to implement decimal floating-point arithmetic on a processor that does not have decimal opera...
Nicolas Brisebarre, Nicolas Louvet, Érik Ma...
ARITH
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Decimal Floating-Point: Algorism for Computers
Decimal arithmetic is the norm in human calculations, and human-centric applications must use a decimal floating-point arithmetic to achieve the same results. Initial benchmarks i...
Michael F. Cowlishaw
PLDI
1990
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
How to Read Floating-Point Numbers Accurately
Converting decimal scientific notation into binary floating point is nontrivial, but this conversion can be performed with the best possible accuracy without sacrificing efficienc...
William D. Clinger