• DocumentCode
    1220359
  • Title

    A new range-reduction algorithm

  • Author

    Brisebarre, Nicolas ; Defour, David ; Kornerup, Peter ; Muller, Jean-Michel ; Revol, Nathalie

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. LIP, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
  • Volume
    54
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    3/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    331
  • Lastpage
    339
  • Abstract
    Range-reduction is a key point for getting accurate elementary function routines. We introduce a new algorithm that is fast for input arguments belonging to the most common domains, yet accurate over the full double-precision range.
  • Keywords
    floating point arithmetic; double-precision range; elementary function evaluation; floating-point arithmetic; range-reduction; Convergence; Cost function; Design methodology; Floating-point arithmetic; Libraries; Statistical distributions; Sun;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9340
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TC.2005.36
  • Filename
    1388197