• DocumentCode
    1271426
  • Title

    Floating-point tricks

  • Author

    Blinn, James F.

  • Author_Institution
    Microsoft Res., USA
  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1997
  • Firstpage
    80
  • Lastpage
    84
  • Abstract
    The author discusses IEEE floating point representation that stores numbers in what amounts to scientific notation. He considers the sign bit, the logarithm function, function approximations, errors and refinements
  • Keywords
    floating point arithmetic; function approximation; societies; IEEE floating point representation; errors; function approximations; logarithm function; refinements; scientific notation; sign bit; Assembly; Digital arithmetic; Engineering profession; Hardware; Personal communication networks; Programming profession; Testing; Text processing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1716
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/38.595279
  • Filename
    595279