DocumentCode
790115
Title
High-precision floating-point arithmetic in scientific computation
Author
Bailey, David H.
Author_Institution
Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., CA, USA
Volume
7
Issue
3
fYear
2005
Firstpage
54
Lastpage
61
Abstract
IEEE 64-bit floating-point arithmetic is sufficient for most scientific applications, but a rapidly growing body of scientific computing applications requires a higher level of numeric precision. Software packages have yielded interesting scientific results that suggest numeric precision in scientific computations could be as important to program design as algorithms and data structures.
Keywords
IEEE standards; floating point arithmetic; natural sciences computing; software packages; IEEE 64-bit floating-point arithmetic; high-precision floating-point arithmetic; numeric precision; program design; scientific computation; Application software; Floating-point arithmetic; High level languages; High performance computing; Mathematics; Packaging; Personal communication networks; Software algorithms; Software packages; Software performance; climate modeling; computational chemistry; computational physics; experimental mathematics; high-precision arithmetic; quantum theory;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computing in Science & Engineering
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1521-9615
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MCSE.2005.52
Filename
1425396
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