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Quote: represent arbitrary precision floating point numbers with multiple, non-overlapping terms; e.g., 1100 - 10.1
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An alternative is the multi-term format, wherein a … exponent [Priest, D.M., Symposium on Computer Arithmetic 1990]. … For the algorithms herein, each arbitrary precision value … +x_2+x_1, where each x_i is called a component … they are required to be nonoverlapping and ordered … for instance, the binary values 1100 and -10.1 … [p. 143] [We assume that] addition, subtraction, and multiplication are performed … Google-1 Google-2
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