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Appendix 3 - Java floating-point

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Clark S. Lindsey ,
Johnny S. Tolliver  and
Thomas Lindblad
Clark S. Lindsey
Affiliation:
Space-H Services, Maryland
Johnny S. Tolliver
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee
Thomas Lindblad
Affiliation:
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
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JavaTech, an Introduction to Scientific and Technical Computing with Java , pp. 693 - 696
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2005

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Joseph D. Darcy, What Everybody Using the Java™ Programming Language Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic, Sun Microsystems, JavaOne Conference, 2002, http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/sf2002/conf/sessions/display-1079.en.jsp
David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell, 4th edn, O'Reilly, 2002
David Goldberg, What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic, Computing Surveys, March 1991, http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy Steele, and Gilad Bracha, The Java Language Specification, 2nd edn, Addison-Wesley, 2000. Available online at: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/jTOC.doc.html
Ronald Mak, Java Number Cruncher: The Java Programmer's Guide to Numerical Computing, Prentice Hall, 2003
Glen McCluskey, Some Things You Should Know about Floating-Point Arithmetic, Java Tech Tips, February 4, 2003, http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2003/tt0204.html#2

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