Hopkins, Tim and Slater, John (1994) A Comment on the Eispack Machine Epsilon Routine. Technical report. University of Kent, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (KAR id:21181)
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Abstract
We analyze the algorithm used to generate the value for the machine epsilon in the Eispack suite of routines and show that it can fail on a binary floating-point system. The comments in the code describing the conditions under which this method will work are not restrictive enough and we provide a replacement set of assumptions. We conclude by suggesting how the algorithm may be modified to overcome most of the shortcomings.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Technical report) |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Sciences > School of Computing > Systems Architecture Group |
| Depositing User: | Mark Wheadon |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Aug 2009 18:26 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 28 May 2019 14:00 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/21181 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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