Standardization and testing of implementations of mathematical functions in floating point numbers

  • Authors:
  • V. V. Kuliamin

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 109004

  • Venue:
  • Programming and Computing Software
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Requirements definition and test suites development for implementations of mathematical functions in floating point arithmetic in the framework of the IEEE 754 standard are considered. A method based on this standard is proposed for defining requirements for such functions. This method can be used for the standardization of implementations of such functions; this kind of standardization extends IEEE 754. A method for designing test suites for the verification of those requirements is presented. The proposed methods are based on specific properties of the representation of floating point numbers and on some features of the functions under examination.