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Oracle^® Solaris Studio 12.4: Numerical Computation Guide

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Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 IEEE Arithmetic

2.1 IEEE Arithmetic Model

2.2 IEEE Formats

2.4 IEEE Standard 754-2008

Chapter 3 The Math Libraries

Chapter 4 Exceptions and Exception Handling

Chapter 5 Compiler Code Generation

Appendix A Examples

Appendix B SPARC Behavior and Implementation

Appendix C x86 Behavior and Implementation

Appendix D Addendum to What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

Appendix E Standards Compliance

Appendix F References

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2.1 IEEE Arithmetic Model

This section describes the IEEE 754-1985 specification. The IEEE Standard was substantially revised in 2008.

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