A Portable Fortran Program to Find the Euclidean Norm of a Vector

ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1978, Pages 15-23

  Blue, James L ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

error bounds; Euclidean norm; machine constants; overflow; portability; underflow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0017942742     PISSN: 00983500     EISSN: 15577295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/355769.355771     Document Type: Article

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