Fast Rounding in Multiprecision Floating-Slash Arithmetic

  • Authors:
  • M. Scott

  • Affiliations:
  • National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

A computational algorithm is described which quickly rounds large fractions into a fixed-length multiprecision floating-slash representation, using single-precision operations where possible. An easily calculated criterion for terminating the rounding process is given.