Feasibility of “perfect” function evaluation
- 1 November 1990
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
- Vol. 25 (4) , 25-26
- https://doi.org/10.1145/122272.122276
Abstract
This paper casts doubt on the feasibility of perfect subroutines or perfect hardware for mathematical functions, in particular by conversion from double precision. It suggests a slightly relaxed standard.Keywords
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