Printing floating-point numbers quickly and accurately with integers

2010/06/05 by Florian Loitsch · 2 citations
Computer Science · #Numerical Methods and Algorithms #Digital Filter Design and Implementation #Cryptography and Residue Arithmetic

paper · doi:10.1145/1806596.1806623

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Abstract

We present algorithms for accurately converting floating-point numbers to decimal representation. They are fast (up to 4 times faster than commonly used algorithms that use high-precision integers) and correct: any printed number will evaluate to the same number, when read again.

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