Numerics question: reading floating point constants
Tony Garnock-Jones
tonyg at lshift.net
Mon Apr 10 09:50:45 UTC 2006
stéphane ducasse wrote:
> Do you know a good book or lectures on the problems related to number
> representation in our nice
> computers?
Besides Clinger's paper on reading floats accurately, there's a
companion by Burger and Dybvig on "Printing Floating Point Numbers
Quickly and Accurately": http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/28233.html
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/FP-Printing-PLDI96.ps.gz
Regards,
Tony
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