Feasibility of “perfect” function evaluation

  • Authors:
  • C. B. Dunham

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGNUM Newsletter
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

This paper casts doubt on the feasibility of perfect subroutines or perfect hardware for mathematical functions, in particular by conversion from double precision. It suggests a slightly relaxed standard.