Foreword

This symposium is the sixth in a series of meetings sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, dieted to the understanding, development and applications of computer arithmetic Previous meetings have all been held in the U.S., but in recognition of an increasing international participation it was decided, at the fifth symposium, to emphasize the true international spirit of the meetings, by scheduling the sixth meeting to take place outside the U.S. From the contents of these proceedings it can be noticed that contributions have come from almost all parts of the world, but still with a significant number of papers from the U.S.