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MPFR: A Multiple-Precision Binary Floating-Point Library with Correct Rounding.

Laurent Fousse 1 Guillaume Hanrot 1 Vincent Lefèvre 1 Patrick Pélissier 1 Paul Zimmermann 1
1 CACAO - Curves, Algebra, Computer Arithmetic, and so On
INRIA Lorraine, LORIA - Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications
Abstract : This paper presents a multiple-precision binary floating-point library, written in the ISO C language, and based on the GNU MP library. Its particularity is to extend to arbitrary-precision ideas from the IEEE 754 standard, by providing correct rounding and exceptions. We demonstrate how these strong semantics are achieved -- with no significant slowdown with respect to other arbitrary-precision tools -- and discuss a few applications where such a library can be useful.
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Laurent Fousse, Guillaume Hanrot, Vincent Lefèvre, Patrick Pélissier, Paul Zimmermann. MPFR: A Multiple-Precision Binary Floating-Point Library with Correct Rounding.. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Association for Computing Machinery, 2007, 33 (2), pp.article 13. ⟨10.1145/1236463.1236468⟩. ⟨inria-00103655⟩

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