Floating point arithmetic teaching for computational science

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1321-1334

  Fernández, José Jesús ^a   García, Inmaculada ^a   Garzó, Ester M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computational science education; Computer arithmetic; Floating point computation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC;

COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE;

TEACHING;

EID: 0142030642     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-739X(03)00090-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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