Exploiting Fast Hardware Floating Point in High Precision Computation

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, ISSAC

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 111-118

  Geddes, Keith O ^a   Zheng, Wei Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arbitrary precision; Floating point; Iterative refinement; Least squares; Linear systems; Multiple precision; Nonlinear systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HARDWARE; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

ITERATIVE REFINEMENT; QUADRATIC ITERATIONS;

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC;

EID: 1542330052     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/860854.860886     Document Type: Conference Paper

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