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A program for testing IEEE decimal-binary conversion (1991)
by
Vern Paxson
,
Prof Kahan
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@MISC{Paxson91aprogram,
author = {Vern Paxson and Prof Kahan},
title = {A program for testing IEEE decimal-binary conversion},
year = {1991}
}
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Abstract
Regardless of how accurately a computer performs floating-point operations, if the data to operate on must be initially converted from the decimal-based representation used by humans into the internal representation used by the machine, then errors in that conversion will irrevocably pollute the results of subsequent
