{"title":"Roundings in floating point arithmetic","authors":"J. Yohe","doi":"10.1109/ARITH.1972.6153916","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we discuss directed roundings and indicate how hardware might be designed to produce proper upward-directed, downward-directed, and certain commonly used symmetric roundings. Algorithms for the four binary arithmetic operations and for rounding are presented, together with proofs of their correctness; appropriate formulas for a priori error analysis of these algorithms are presented. Some of the basic applications of directed roundings are surveyed.","PeriodicalId":6526,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE 22nd Symposium on Computer Arithmetic","volume":"PC-26 1","pages":"1-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1972-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"22","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2015 IEEE 22nd Symposium on Computer Arithmetic","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARITH.1972.6153916","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this paper we discuss directed roundings and indicate how hardware might be designed to produce proper upward-directed, downward-directed, and certain commonly used symmetric roundings. Algorithms for the four binary arithmetic operations and for rounding are presented, together with proofs of their correctness; appropriate formulas for a priori error analysis of these algorithms are presented. Some of the basic applications of directed roundings are surveyed.