التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
SURVEYORS' FORUM. |
| المؤلفون: |
Wichmann, B. A.1, Dunham, Charles B.2 |
| المصدر: |
ACM Computing Surveys. Sep92, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p319-319. 1p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*PROGRAMMING languages, SURVEYS, FLOATING-point arithmetic, COMPUTER arithmetic |
| الشركة/الكيان: |
INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Corp. 001368083 IBM |
| Reviews & Products: |
ACM Computing Surveys (Periodical) |
| People: |
GOLDBERG, David |
| مستخلص: |
The article discusses surveys conducted by the scholar David Goldberg in surveyors' forum. Goldberg is to be congratulated on his excellent survey, "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic" published in the March, 1991 issue of the ACM Computing Surveys. The Language Compatible Arithmetic Standard (LCAS) addresses the arithmetic requirements of programming languages and requires that a system produce numerically sound results or inform the user that this is not possible. Since LCAS is simpler than a complete Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer (IEEE) implementation, perhaps it could provide an alternative platform for describing floating point. Furthermore, language systems built on hardware conforming to the IEEE standard can vary significantly. The languages themselves should produce IEEE bindings rather than relying on the hardware implementation. The article speculates on the choice of floating-point arithmetic on the International Business Machines Corp. System. This note points out that the reasons for the choice were already documented at the time. |
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