Floating-point arithmetic with 84-bit numbers

1 January 1964

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM

Vol. 7 (1) , 10-13
https://doi.org/10.1145/363872.363886

Abstract

A classic and straightforward technique is presented which is not limited to the size or type of number representation used or multiple precision arithmetic.

Keywords

FLOATING-POINT ARITHMETIC
84-BIT NUMBER
STRAIGHTFORWARD TECHNIQUE
MULTIPLE PRECISION ARITHMETIC
NUMBER REPRESENTATION
FLOATING POINT ARITHMETIC