Many numerical applications typically use floating-point types to compute values. However, in some platforms, a floating-point unit may not be available. Other platforms may have a floating-point unit ...

Mark Arnold is currently at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) on leave of absence from the University of Wyoming. He is the author or co-author of more than a ...

As defined by the IEEE 754 standard, floating-point values are represented in three fields: a significand or mantissa, a sign bit for the significand and an exponent field. The exponent is a biased ...