Monte Carlo arithmetic: how to gamble with floating point and win

  • Authors:
  • D. Stott Parker;Brad Pierce;Paul R. Eggert

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Computing in Science and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

How sensitive to rounding errors are the results generated from a particular code running on a particular machine applied to a particular input? Monte Carlo arithmetic illustrates the potential for tools to support new kinds of a posteriori round-off error analysis.