Floating-point tricks

1 January 1997

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Vol. 17 (4) , 80-84
https://doi.org/10.1109/38.595279

Abstract

The author discusses IEEE floating point representation that stores numbers in what amounts to scientific notation. He considers the sign bit, the logarithm function, function approximations, errors and refinements

Keywords

FLOATING-POINT TRICK
FUNCTION APPROXIMATION
AUTHOR DISCUSSES
SIGN BIT
SCIENTIFIC NOTATION
POINT REPRESENTATION
STORES NUMBER
LOGARITHM FUNCTION
FLOATING POINT
FLOATING POINT ARITHMETIC