The choice of base
- 1 October 1969
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 12 (10) , 560-561
- https://doi.org/10.1145/363235.363240
Abstract
A digital computer is considered, whose memory words are composed of N r -state devices plus two sign bits (two state devices). The choice of base β for the internal representation of floating-point numbers on such a computer is discussed. It is shown that in a certain sense β = r is best.Keywords
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