High-precision floating-point arithmetic in scientific computation

Computing in Science and Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 54-61

  Bailey, David H ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; GRID GENERATION; HIGH-PRECISION FLOATING-POINT ARITHMETIC; SUPERNOVA SIMULATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUANTUM THEORY;

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC;

EID: 19944379438     PISSN: 15219615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2005.52     Document Type: Article

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