Small-Data Computing: Correct Calculator Arithmetic.
The article discusses the processes and methodologies used in calculator arithmetic as well as the small-data computing necessary for such mathematics in smartphone calculators. It details how computers perform numerical computations using floating point arithmetic before describing efforts to repla...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 60; no. 8; pp. 44 - 50 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Aug2017
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