Formal Methods Applied to a Floating Point Number System

The work

AuthorsGeoff Barrett
Editors
Typetechreport
Year1987
Citekeybarrett1987formal

Where it appeared

PublisherOxford University Computing Laboratory, Programming Research Group
Number in seriesPRG-58
SchoolOxford University Computing Laboratory, Programming Research Group

Abstract

This report presents a formalisation of the IEEE standard for binary floating-point arithmetic and proofs of procedures to perform non-exceptional arithmetic calculations.

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@techreport{barrett1987formal,
  title        = {Formal Methods Applied to a Floating Point Number System},
  author       = {Geoff Barrett},
  year         = {1987},
  publisher    = {Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Programming Research Group},
  school       = {Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Programming Research Group},
}

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