Floating-Point Arithmetic NelsonH. F. Beebe

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Extending TEX and METAFONT with Floating-Point Arithmetic Nelson H. F. Beebe Department of Mathematics University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090 USA TEX Users Group Conference 2007 talk. . . – p. 1/33

• overflow bit
• job of rigorous error analysis
• fractional bits
• unique floating-point system
• bit format after 27 years
• divide error wrap between underflow
• point