Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic

Part I: Introduction, Basic Definitions, and Standards.- Introduction.- Definitions and Basic Notations.- Floating-Point Formats and Environment.- Part II: Cleverly Using Floating-Point Arithmetic.- Basic Properties and Algorithms.- Enhanced FP Sums, Dot Products, and Polynomial Values.- Languages and Compilers.- Part III: Implementing Floating-Point Operators.- Algorithms for the Basic Operations.- Hardware Implementation of Floating-Point Arithmetic.- Software Implementation of Floating-Point Arithmetic.- Evaluating Floating-Point Elementary Functions.- Part IV: Extensions.- Complex Numbers.- Interval Arithmetic.- Verifying Floating-Point Arithmetic.- Extending the Precision.- Appendix A: Number Theory Tools.- Appendix B: Previous Standards.- References.- Index.