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The design of floating-point data types

Year: 1992

Type: article

Abstract: The issues involved in designing the floating-point part of a programming language are discussed. Looking at the language specifications for most existing languages might suggest that this design involves only trivial issues, such as whether to have one or two types of REALs or how to name the functions that convert from INTEGER to REAL. It is shown that there are more significant semantic issues involved. After discussing the trade-offs for the major design decisions, they are illustrated by presenting the design of the floating-point part of the Modula-3 language.

Source: ACM Letters on Programming Languages and Systems

DOI: 10.1145/151333.151373

Author: David Goldberg

Institution: Palo Alto Research Center

Language: English

Topic: Logic, programming, and type systems

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W1979346362

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Cites: 19

Cited by: 1

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