FOCUS Microcomputer Number System

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1979, Pages 166-177

  Edgar, Albert D ^a   Lee, Samuel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

computational accuracy; computational speed; logarithmic arithmetic; microcomputer applications; number representation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS, MICROPROCESSOR;

EID: 0018319198     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/359080.359085     Document Type: Article

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