OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW, AND SEVERE LOSS OF SIGNIFICANCE IN FLOATING-POINT ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION

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作者
FELDSTEIN, A [1 ]
TURNER, P [1 ]
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[1] UNIV LANCASTER,DEPT MATH,LANCASTER LA1 4YL,ENGLAND
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The computation was carried out on the VAX 11/780 computer at the University of Lancaster. The work was done during a visit to the University of Lancaster while Alan Feldstein was receiving sabbatical leave support from Arizona State University and held a visiting appointment at Brunei University; Uxbridge; U.K. The authors wish to thank Mr. and Mrs. Peter Taplin of the Stone House Hotel; near Hawes; North Yorkshire whose helpful service and friendly hospitality eased the preparation of this paper considerably;
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10.1093/imanum/6.2.241
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O29 [应用数学];
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