What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point ArithmeticWhat Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic Note – This appendix is an edited reprint of the paper What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic, by David Goldberg, published in the March, 1991 issue of Computing Surveys. Copyright 1991, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., reprinted by permission. Abstract Floating-point arithmetic i
