Rounding and Truncation in Radix (-2) Systems

  • Authors:
  • S. Zohar

  • Affiliations:
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California. Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1976

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Abstract

Examination of rounding and truncation errors in radix (-2) systems establishes the following facts: 1) truncation error is 33 percent lower than in the positive radix case. 2) There is no 1-bit rounding algorithm. 3) The error bound of the standard (1-bit) positive radix rounding algorithm can be approached asymptotically by using more than one of the discarded bits. For N bits, this error bound is multiplied by 1 + (3. 2N-l)-1.