Transactions of the Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Online ISSN : 2424-0982
ISSN-L : 0917-2246
On Distribution of Rounding Errors Generated in Additions and Subtractions of Floating-Point Numbers
Koichi KUBOTA
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1995 Volume 5 Issue 1 Pages 37-46

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Analyzing the behaviour of rounding errors generated in additions and subtractions of floating-point numbers and regarding them as random variables, we propose a slightly strange model for their distribution. The model gives distributions which approximate the observed generated relative errors more precisely than the uniform distribution which is usually adopted in probalbilistic analysis of rounding errors.
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