Algorithm 693: a FORTRAN package for floating-point multiple-precision arithmetic
- 1 June 1991
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
- Vol. 17 (2) , 273-283
- https://doi.org/10.1145/108556.108585
Abstract
FM is a collection of FORTRAN-77 routines which performs floating-point multiple-precision arithmetic and elementary functions. Results are almost always correctly rounded, and due to improved algorithms used for elementary functions, reasonable efficiency is obtained.Keywords
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