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IEEE 754 Document Information:
Title
Floating-Point Arithmetic
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Publication Date:
Jun 12, 2008
Scope:
Implementation Objectives.
It is intended that an implementation of a floating-point system conforming to this standard can be realized entirely in software, entirely in hardware, or in any combination of software and hardware. It is the environment the programmer or user of the system sees that conforms or fails to conform to this standard. Hardware components that require software support to conform shall not be said to conform apart from such software.
Inclusions.
This standard specifies
(1) Basic and extended floating-point number
(2) Add, subtract, multiply, divide, square root, remainder, and compare operations
(3) Conversions between integer and floating-point formats
(4) Conversions between different floating-point formats
(5) Conversions between basic format floating-point numbers and decimal strings
(6) Floating-point exceptions and their handling, including nonnumbers (NaNs)
Exclusions.
This standard does not specify
(1) Formats of decimal strings and integers
(2) Interpretation of the sign and significand fields of NaNs
(3) Binary ? decimal conversions to and from extended formats
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