Floating-Point verification using theorem proving
SFM'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Formal Methods for the Design of Computer, Communication, and Software Systems
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One approach to testing and/or proving correctness of a floating-point algorithm computing a function f is based on finding input floating-point numbers a such that the exact result f(a) is very close to a "rounding boundary", i.e. a floating-point number or a midpoint between them. In the present paper we show how to do this for the reciprocal function by utilizing prime factorizations. We present the method and show examples, as well as making a fairly detailedstudy of its expected and worst-case behavior. We point out how this analysis of reciprocals can be useful in analyzing certain reciprocal algorithms, and also show how the approach can be trivially adapted to the reciprocal square root function.