An example in “significant-digit” arithmetic
- 1 January 1964
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 7 (1) , 21
- https://doi.org/10.1145/363872.363895
Abstract
Different methods of handling the summing process for the geometric series are shown to give results indicating widely differing significances when carried out in a machine incorporating “significant-digit” arithmetic.Keywords
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