Elementary Functions - Algorithms and Implementations

Second Edition of successful, well-reviewed Birkhauser book, which sold 866 copies in North America
Provides an up-to-date presentation by including new results, examples, and problems throughout the text
The second edition adds a chapter on multiple-precision arithmetic, and new algorithms invented since 1997

List of contents

List of figures.- List of tables.- Preface to the second edition.- Preface to the first edition.- Introduction.- Some basic things about computer arithmetic.- Part I. Algorithms based on polynomial approximation and/or table lookup, multiple-precision evaluation of functions .- Polynomial or rational approximations.- Table-based methods.- Multiple-precision evaluation of functions.- Part II. Shift-and-add algorithms .- Introduction to shift-and-add algorithms.- The CORDIC algorithm.- Some other shift-and-add algorithms.- Part III. Range reduction, final rounding and exceptions .- Range reduction.- Final rounding.- Miscellaneous.- Examples of implementation.- Bibliography.- Index

Product details

• Authors: J. Muller, Jean-Michel Muller
• Publisher: Springer, Basel
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9780817643720
• ISBN: 978-0-8176-4372-0
• No. of pages: 266
• Weight: 698 g
• Illustrations: 36 SW-Abb., 49 Tabellen, XXII, 266 p. 36 illus.
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Analysis