Re: RFC: Arbitrary-precision floats for Guile

[Pierpaolo Bernardi]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 02:53, Nelson H. F. Beebe <address@hidden> wrote:

> Another recent book addresses arithmetic and the computation of
> elementary functions in software arbitrary-precision arithmetic:
>
> @String{pub-CAMBRIDGE           = "Cambridge University Press"}
> @String{pub-CAMBRIDGE:adr       = "Cambridge, UK"}
>
> @Book{Brent:2011:MCA,
>  author =       "Richard P. Brent and Paul Zimmermann",
>  title =        "Modern computer arithmetic",
>  volume =       "18",
>  publisher =    pub-CAMBRIDGE,
>  address =      pub-CAMBRIDGE:adr,
>  pages =        "xvi + 221",
>  year =         "2011",
>  ISBN =         "0-521-19469-5 (hardcover)",
>  ISBN-13 =      "978-0-521-19469-3 (hardcover)",
>  LCCN =         "QA76.9.C62 BRE 2011",
>  bibdate =      "Sat Jan 15 12:25:22 MST 2011",
>  bibsource =    "library.ox.ac.uk:210/ADVANCE",
>  series =       "Cambridge monographs on applied and computational
>                 mathematics",
>  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
>  subject =      "Computer arithmetic",
> }

In case this is not universally known: this book is also available for
free from Zimmermann home page.

http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/mca/pub226.html

Cheers
P.