RE: [boost] Re: Floating Point comparisons

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