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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...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 60; no. 8; pp. 44 - 50
Main Author: BOEHM, HANS-J.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2017
Subjects:
Calculators
Floating-point arithmetic
Mobile apps
Rounding (Numerical analysis)
Rounding errors
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