The following four part series was printed between October 1988 and January 1989 of the magazine „MC".
A basic and comprehensive article discussing the design of floating point numbers.
For the sake of completeness references to other processors (8086 and 68000) are shown here. But the appropriate listings are not shown here.
Hagen Völzke

Fließkomma-Arithmetik und IEEE-Spezifikationen

Teil 1: Standards und Strukturen Teil 2: Entwurf eines Fließkommapaketes
Teil 3: Die verwendeten Algorithmen Teil 4: Die Konvertierungsroutinen

Scanned by Werner Cirsovius
September 2004
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