The Mathematical-Function Computation Handbook

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Programming Using the MathCW Portable Software Library

ISBN:	3319877259
ISBN 13:	9783319877259
Autor:	Beebe, Nelson H F
Verlag:	Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang:	xxxvi, 1115 S.
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.05.2018
Auflage:	1/2017
Produktform:	Kartoniert
Einband:	Kartoniert

All major computer programming languages-as well as the disciplines of science and engineering more broadly-require computation of elementary and special functions of mathematics. The MathCW Software Library emphasizes portability, precisely because the code needs to capable of use on a wide variety of platforms. This highly comprehensive handbook provides a substantial advance in such computation, extending the function coverage of major programming languages well beyond their international standards, including full support for decimal floating-point arithmetic. Written with clarity and focusing on the C language, the work pays extensive attention to little-understood aspects of floating-point and integer arithmetic, and to software portability, as well as to important historical architectures. It extends support to a future 256-bit, floating-point format offering 70 decimal digits of precision. Select Topics and Features: references an exceptionally useful, authormaintained MathCW website, containing source code for the book’s software, compiled libraries for numerous systems, prebuilt C compilers, and other related materials offers a unique approach to covering mathematicalfunction computation using decimal arithmetic provides extremely versatile appendices for interfaces to numerous other languages: Ada, C#, C++, Fortran, Java, and Pascal presupposes only basic familiarity with computer programming in a common language, as well as early level algebra supplies a library that readily adapts for existing scripting languages, with minimal effort supports both binary and decimal arithmetic, in up to 10 different floatingpoint formats covers a significant portion (with highly accurate implementations) of the U.S National Institute of Standards and Technology’s 10year project to codify mathematical functions This highly practical text/reference is an invaluable tool for advanced undergraduates, recording many lessons of the intermingled history of computer hardware and software, numerical algorithms, and mathematics. In addition, professional numerical analysts and others will find the handbook of real interest and utility because it builds on research by the mathematical software community over the last four decades.

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Beschreibung

Beschreibung

Describes the computation of mathematical functions in decimal arithmetic, including coverage of 256-bit floating-point formats Covers a major part of the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, with highly accurate implementations in up to 10 floating-point formats Describes implementation in the C programming language, and also provides interfaces to Ada, C#, C++, Fortran, Java, and Pascal Pays extensive attention to little-understood aspects of floating-point and integer arithmetic, and to software portability, including to important historical architectures

Autorenporträt

Dr. Nelson H.F. Beebe is a Research Professor and Software Specialist in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah, USA. He has a diverse background in chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, systems management, and typography, having studied, worked, and taught in three countries. He has written extensive software projects in numerous programming-language, operating-system, and hardware environments. His bibliographic database work has exposed him to a wide range of journals on current research.