• DocumentCode
    1013085
  • Title

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

  • Author

    Cody, W.J. ; Coonen, J.T. ; Gay, D.M. ; Hanson, K. ; Hough, D. ; Kahan, W. ; Karpinski, R. ; Palmer, J. ; Ris, F.N. ; Stevenson, D.

  • Author_Institution
    Argonne National Laboratory
  • Volume
    4
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1984
  • Firstpage
    86
  • Lastpage
    100
  • Abstract
    Besides making the proposed IEEE 854 standard available for comment, this article explains how to overcome some of its implementation problems.
  • Keywords
    Floating-point arithmetic; Hardware; IEEE standards; Microprocessors; Technical drawing; US Department of Energy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Micro, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1732
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MM.1984.291224
  • Filename
    4071106
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1013085