Algorithm 908: Online exact summation of floating-point streams

ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Zhu, Yong Kang ^a   Hayes, Wayne B ^a  

^a Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Floating point summation; Rounding error

Indexed keywords

CONDITION NUMBERS; FLOATING POINT NUMBERS; FLOATING-POINT SUMMATION; INPUT STREAMS; INSTRUCTION LEVEL PARALLELISM; MEMORY EFFICIENT; ON-LINE ALGORITHMS; PROOF OF CORRECTNESS; ROUNDING ERRORS; SUMMANDS;

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; HYDRAULICS; NUMBER THEORY;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77957571319     PISSN: 00983500     EISSN: 15577295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1824801.1824815     Document Type: Article

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