The IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) is a technical standard for floating-point arithmetic originally established in 1985 by the...
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IEEE 754-1985 is a historic industry standard for representing floating-point numbers in computers, officially adopted in 1985 and superseded in 2008 by...
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IEEE 754-2008 (previously known as IEEE 754r) is a revision of the IEEE 754 standard for floating-point arithmetic. It was published in August 2008 and...
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"trap" in IEEE 754 terminology.) Here, the required default method of handling exceptions according to IEEE 754 is discussed (the IEEE 754 optional trapping...
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n ≤ 127, can be converted exactly into an IEEE 754 single-precision floating-point value. In the IEEE 754 standard, the 32-bit base-2 format is officially...
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Double-precision floating-point format (redirect from IEEE double)
insufficient. In the IEEE 754 standard, the 64-bit base-2 format is officially referred to as binary64; it was called double in IEEE 754-1985. IEEE 754 specifies...
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Half-precision floating-point format (redirect from IEEE 754-2008 half precision)
image processing and neural networks. Almost all modern uses follow the IEEE 754-2008 standard, where the 16-bit base-2 format is referred to as binary16...
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such as the result of 0/0. Systematic use of NaNs was introduced by the IEEE 754 floating-point standard in 1985, along with the representation of other...
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condition, saves state, and switches control. Exception handling in the IEEE 754 floating-point standard refers in general to exceptional conditions and...
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Quadruple-precision floating-point format (redirect from IEEE 754 quadruple-precision floating-point format)
wider precision was already in view when IEEE Standard 754 for Floating-Point Arithmetic was framed." In IEEE 754-2008 the 128-bit base-2 format is officially...
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C99 (section IEEE 754 floating-point support)
implementations make better use of available computer hardware, such as IEEE 754-1985 floating-point arithmetic, and compiler technology. The C11 version...
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Subnormal number (section IEEE)
of IEEE 754. In casual discussions the terms subnormal and denormal are often used interchangeably, in part because there are no denormalized IEEE binary...
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Extended precision (redirect from IEEE double extended precision)
Motorola 68881 80-bit formats meet the requirements of the IEEE 754-1985 double extended format, as does the IEEE 754 128-bit binary format. The x86 extended-precision...
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radix point. This format is a shortened (16-bit) version of the 32-bit IEEE 754 single-precision floating-point format (binary32) with the intent of accelerating...
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Decimal floating point (section IEEE 754-2008 encoding)
DFP coprocessor. IEEE 754-2008 defines this in more detail. Fujitsu also has 64-bit Sparc processors with DFP in hardware. The IEEE 754-2008 standard defines...
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Octuple-precision floating-point format (section IEEE 754 octuple-precision binary floating-point format: binary256)
universe or precisions better than planck units. In its 2008 revision, the IEEE 754 standard specifies a binary256 format among the interchange formats (it...
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usually encoded as +0, but can still be represented by +0, −0, or 0. The IEEE 754 standard for floating-point arithmetic (presently used by most computers...
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10. IEEE 854 did not specify any data formats, whereas IEEE 754-1985 did specify formats for binary (radix 2) floating point. IEEE 754-1985 and IEEE 854-1987...
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creating the original IEEE 754 specification. Kahan continued his contributions to the IEEE 754 revision that led to the current IEEE 754 standard. In the...
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intended to be application-compatible with System/360. In comparison to IEEE 754 floating point, the HFP format has a longer significand, and a shorter...
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the other names mentioned are common, significand is the word used by IEEE 754, an important technical standard for floating-point arithmetic. In mathematics...
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Intel 8087 (section IEEE floating-point standard)
included on the 1981 IBM PC motherboard. Development of the 8087 led to the IEEE 754-1985 standard for floating-point arithmetic. The available speed version...
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TensorFloat-32 (category IEEE standards)
normal 32 bit IEEE 754 floating point number, provides much faster computation, up to 8 times on a A100 (compared to a V100 using FP32). IEEE 754 https://deeprec...
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the power functions for the revision of the IEEE 754 standard, May 2007.) "Re: A vague specification". IEEE. Archived from the original on 2017-11-14....
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was used as a modifier that restricted floating-point calculations to IEEE 754 semantics to ensure portability. The strictfp keyword was introduced into...
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Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE SA) is an operating unit within IEEE that develops global standards in a broad range of industries...
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using channel commands and, in later models, added instructions to perform IEEE 754 floating-point operations and increased the number of floating-point registers...
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demonstrate the properties and structures of floating-point arithmetic and IEEE 754 numbers. Minifloats with 16 bits are half-precision numbers (opposed to...
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the square root of a 32-bit floating-point number x {\displaystyle x} in IEEE 754 floating-point format. The algorithm is best known for its implementation...
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condition). This replacement is called "flush to zero". The 1984 edition of IEEE 754 introduced subnormal numbers. The subnormal numbers (including zero) fill...
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