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+\subsection{Precision and Rounding Issues}\label{Precision and Rounding}
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+Goldberg's 1991 paper ``What Every Computer Scientist Needs to Know about Floating Point Arithmetic''\cite{goldberg1991whatevery} provides a comprehensive overview of issues in floating point arithmetic and relates these to requirements of the IEEE-754 1985 standard\cite{ieee754std1985}. More recently, after the release of the revised IEEE-754 standard in 2008\cite{ieee754std2008}, a textbook ``Handbook Of Floating Point Arithmetic'' has been published which provides a thourough review of literature relating to floating point arithmetic in both software and hardware\cite{HFP}.
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+William Kahan, one of the architects of the IEEE-754 standard in 1984 and a contributor to its revision in 2010, has also published many articles on his website explaining the more obscure features of the IEEE-754 standard and calling out software which fails to conform to the standard\footnote{In addition to encodings and acceptable rounding behaviour, the standard also specifies ``exceptions'' --- mechanisms by which a program can detect and report an error such as division by zero}\cite{kahanweb, kahan1996ieee754}, as well as examples of the limitations of floating point computations\cite{kahan2007wrong}.