Beyond Floating Point
- 30 March 1984
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Journal of the ACM
- Vol. 31 (2) , 319-328
- https://doi.org/10.1145/62.322429
Abstract
A new number system is proposed for computer arithmetic based on iterated exponential functions. The mare advantage is to eradicate overflow and undertow, but there are several other advantages and these are described and discussed.Keywords
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