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The end of error : unum computing /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boca Raton :
CRC Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Chapman & Hall/CRC computational science series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; How to read this book; Part 1
- A New Number Format: The Unum; Chapter 1
- Overview; Chapter 2
- Building up to the unum format; Chapter 3
- The "original sin" of computer arithmetic; Chapter 4
- The complete unum format; Chapter 5
- Hidden scratchpads and the three layers; Chapter 6
- Information per bit; Chapter 7
- Fixed-size unum storage; Chapter 8
- Comparison operations; Chapter 9
- Add/subtract and the unbiased rounding myth; Chapter 10
- Multiplication and division; Chapter 11
- Powers; Chapter 12
- Other important unary operations
- Chapter 13
- Fused operations (single-use expressions)Chapter 14
- Trial runs: Unums face challenge calculations; Part 2
- A New Way to Solve: The Ubox; Chapter 15
- The other kind of error; Chapter 16
- Avoiding interval arithmetic pitfalls; Chapter 17
- What does it mean to "solve" an equation?; Chapter 18
- Permission to guess; Chapter 19
- Pendulums done correctly; Chapter 20
- The two-body problem (and beyond); Chapter 21
- Calculus considered evil: Discrete physics; Chapter 22
- The end of error; Glossary; Appendix A
- Glossary of unum functions; Appendix B
- Glossary of ubox functions
- Appendix C
- Algorithm listings for Part 1Appendix D
- Algorithm listings for Part 2; For further reading; Back Cover