Title :
A new range-reduction algorithm
Author :
Brisebarre, Nicolas ; Defour, David ; Kornerup, Peter ; Muller, Jean-Michel ; Revol, Nathalie
Author_Institution :
Lab. LIP, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
fDate :
3/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Range-reduction is a key point for getting accurate elementary function routines. We introduce a new algorithm that is fast for input arguments belonging to the most common domains, yet accurate over the full double-precision range.
Keywords :
floating point arithmetic; double-precision range; elementary function evaluation; floating-point arithmetic; range-reduction; Convergence; Cost function; Design methodology; Floating-point arithmetic; Libraries; Statistical distributions; Sun;
Journal_Title :
Computers, IEEE Transactions on
