Chapter 3. The Floating-Point Standard

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	Java Number Cruncher: The Java Programmer's Guide to Numerical Computing By Ronald  Mak
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	Part  I.   Why Good Computations Go Bad

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Chapter 1 covered floating-point numbers and floating-point arithmetic in general. This chapter gets into the details of how Java implements floating point and how well it adheres to the IEEE 754 floating-point standard. ^[1] We'll begin to understand the behavior of Java's float and double types.

^[1] Pronounced "I triple E," IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a professional organization under whose auspices the standard was published in 1985 after a historic cooperation between computer scientists and microprocessor chip designers.

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