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Computing Integer Powers in Floating-Point Arithmetic

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We introduce two algorithms for accurately evaluating powers to a positive integer in floating-point arithmetic, assuming a fused multiply-add (fma) instruction is available. We show that our log-time algorithm always produce faithfully-rounded results, discuss the possibility of getting correctly rounded results, and show that results correctly rounded in double precision can be obtained if extended-precision is available with the possibility to round into double precision (with a single rounding).
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ensl-00150406 , version 1 (30-05-2007)

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Peter Kornerup, Vincent Lefèvre, Jean-Michel Muller. Computing Integer Powers in Floating-Point Arithmetic. 2007. ⟨ensl-00150406⟩
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