Artifact Details

Description

This folder contains material related to floating-point arithmetic, including handwritten notes and algorithms, technical papers and reports by White and others, a draft proposal for standardization of binary floating-point arithmetic, and photocopies of text from "The Classical Algorithms."

Additional titles: Basic digit sets for radix representation; Criterion for termination of radix conversion, A; Floating scale base conversion; Floating-point arithmetic; How to print floating-point numbers accurately; Program for testing IEEE decimal-binary conversion, A; Rational arithmetic for mini-computers

Date

1972-1991

Author

White, Jon L.; Horn, Berthold Klaus Paul; Paxson, Vern; Mealy, George H.; Steele, Guy L.; Matula, David W.

Publisher

Harvard University. Center for Research in Computer Technology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Southern Methodist University. Department of Computer Science

Category

Technical Paper or Note; Standards; Notebooks; Article; Technical Report; Correspondence

Collection Title

Jon L. White collection on Common Lisp

Series Title

Object-oriented programming, artificial intelligence, and other records

Credit

Gift of Jon L. White

Lot Number

X6823.2013