Speaker
Mr
Sverre Jarp
(CERN)
Description
We start by asked ourselves why we need to bother about this topic at all. Hopefully, having convinced ourselves, we then discuss the IEEE-754 standard which is used in all modern microprocessors. We discuss several techniques for keeping floating-point calculations accurate. Math functions, such as exponentials and power functions, are also invoked, since they can be costly in performance and also have a large impact of the accuracy of floating-point calculations.
