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Quote: efficient algorithm for correctly rounded decimal-to-binary conversion; avoids high-precision arithmetic 99.6% of the time

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Topic:
type conversion
Topic:
real numbers and floating point numbers

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My PLDI paper gave the first description of … Within months of PLDI '90, David Gay improved … point calculation combined with a high-precision integer calculation … [Tech Report 90-10, AT&T Bell Labs, 11/90; dtoa.c, http://www.netlib.org/fp, 11/90]. … [abstract] The algorithm uses a few extra bits … approximation could be other than the best. If … simple operations on multiple-precision integers, where the precision … [p. 370] [For ten million double precision numbers spanning a wide range of f and e], the algorithm avoided higher precision arithmetic …   Google-1   Google-2

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