High-speed double-precision computation of reciprocal, division, square root, and inverse square root

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1377-1388

  Piñeiro, José Alejandro ^a   Bruguera, Javier Díaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computer arithmetic; Division; Double precision operations; Goldschmidt iteration; Inverse square root; Square root; Table based methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; POLYNOMIALS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

COMPUTER ARITHMETIC; DOUBLE PRECISION OPERATIONS; EXECUTION TIMES; GOLDSCHMIDT ITERATION; INVERSE SQUARE ROOT;

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC;

EID: 0036937185     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2002.1146704     Document Type: Article

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