Floating point verification in HOL light: the exponential function

Formal Methods in System Design

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 271-305

  Harrison, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; STANDARDS; THEOREM PROVING;

EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION; FLOATING POINT VERIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL SEMANTICS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0034206836     PISSN: 09259856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008712907154     Document Type: Article

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