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From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-14 20:32:08


At 10:57 AM 12/14/2001, Fernando Cacciola wrote:

>I recently found these papers on the web.
>I have only scanned them, not actually read them, but I think they can
help
>us understand the issues about FP rounding.
>
>"Rounding Near Zero", U. Kulisch.
>"From Rounding Error Estimation to Automatic Correction with Automatic
>Differentiation", P. Langlois.
>"The Improbability of Probabilistic Error Analyses for numerical
>computations", W. Kahan.
>"Roundoff degrades an Idealized Cantilever", W. Kahan.

There is an edited reprint available of Goldberg's well-known paper "What
Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic"

http://docs.sun.com/htmlcoll/coll.648.2/iso-8859-1/NUMCOMPGD/ncg_goldberg.html

--Beman


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