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is a historic industry standard for representing floating-point numbers in computers, officially adopted in 1985 and superseded in 2008 by...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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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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is officially referred to as binary32; it was called single in IEEE 754-1985. IEEE 754 specifies additional floating-point types, such as 64-bit base-2...
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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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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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Intel 8087 (section IEEE floating-point standard)
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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primary architect behind the IEEE 754-1985 standard for floating-point computation (and its radix-independent follow-on, IEEE 854). He has been called "The...
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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 non-finite quantities...
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of floating-point representations have been used in computers. In 1985, the IEEE 754 Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic was established, and since...
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particular, the current IEEE 754 standard does not mention it. Mantissa (logarithm) The term fraction is used in IEEE 754-1985 with a different meaning:...
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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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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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{\displaystyle x} ). In languages that allow type punning and always use IEEE 754–1985, we can exploit this to compute a machine epsilon in constant time....
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double-extended precision binary floating-point arithmetic as per the IEEE 754-1985 standard. By default, the x87 processors all use 80-bit double-extended...
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in one of the five supported rounding modes (including the four from IEEE 754-1985). Supported functions: MPFR implements all mathematical functions from...
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single-precision (32-bit) floating point implementation that is compliant with the IEEE 754-1985 standard. Many of the design features of the 96000 remain similar to...
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double-precision floating-point computation fully compliant with the ANSI/IEEE Std 754-1985 Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic. VFP provides floating-point...
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pipeline, and access the on-chip 8 KB data cache. The R4000 has an on-die IEEE 754-1985-compliant floating-point unit (FPU), referred to as the R4010. The FPU...
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Windows Calculator (category 1985 software)
variable statistics and linear regression. Until Windows 95, it uses an IEEE 754-1985 double-precision floating-point, and the highest representable number...
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(FPU) and three added registers for floating point, implementing the IEEE 754-1985 floating point standard. It also had 4 KB of on-board RAM and was available...
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Gustafson in 2015. They are designed as an alternative to the ubiquitous IEEE 754 floating-point standard. The latest version is known as posits. The first...
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IEEE 802.11 is part of the IEEE 802 set of local area network (LAN) technical standards, and specifies the set of medium access control (MAC) and physical...
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Signal Broadcasting System 1985 – Multiple Technologies on a Chip 1985 – IEEE Standard 754 for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic 1986 – Fiber Optic Connectors...
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specification of 3.0, which uses "ANSI/IEEE Standard 754-1985" as its reference), "the long double data type represents an IEEE double-extended floating-point...
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0/RFC 1945), W3C (XML Schema), ECMA (JavaScript/ECMAScript, C#, CLI), and IEEE (754 decimal floating-point). He retired from IBM in March 2010. Cowlishaw...
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number format has been applied, one that is close to single precision IEEE 754-1985, consisting of 1-byte exponent and 3-byte fraction (effectively 7 decimal...
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Standard Apple Numerics Environment, an obsolete software implementation of IEEE 754 floating point arithmetic Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, a nurse with specialized...
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upper-bounded. These definitions differ only at signed powers of the radix. The IEEE 754 specification—followed by all modern floating-point hardware—requires that...
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