Linkblog: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
D. Goldberg: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic. ACM Computing Surveys 1991.
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D. Goldberg: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic. ACM Computing Surveys 1991.