Dr. Nelson H.F. Beebe is a Research Professor and Software Specialist in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah, USA. He has a diverse background in chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, systems management, and typography, having studied, worked, and taught in three countries. He has written extensive software projects in numerous programming-language, operating-system, and hardware environments. His bibliographic database work has exposed him to a wide range of journals on current research.
This highly comprehensive handbook provides a substantial advance in the computation of elementary and special functions of mathematics, extending the function coverage of major programming languages well beyond their international standards, including full support for decimal floating-point arithmetic. Written with clarity and focusing on the C language, the work pays extensive attention to little-understood aspects of floating-point and integer arithmetic, and to software portability, as well as to important historical architectures. It extends support to a future 256-bit, floating-point format offering 70 decimal digits of precision.
Select Topics and Features: references an exceptionally useful, author-maintained MathCW website, containing source code for the book´s software, compiled libraries for numerous systems, pre-built
C compilers, and other related materials; offers a unique approach to covering mathematical-function computation using decimal arithmetic; provides extremely versatile appendices for interfaces to numerous other languages: Ada, C#, C++, Fortran, Java, and Pascal; presupposes only basic familiarity with computer programming in a common language, as well as early level algebra; supplies a library that readily adapts for existingillegalscripting languages, with minimal effort; supports both binary and decimal arithmetic, in up to 10 different floating-point formats; covers a significant portion (with highly accurate implementations) of the U.S National Institute of Standards and Technology´s 10-year project to codify mathematical functions.
This highly practical text/reference is an invaluable tool for advanced undergraduates, recording many lessons of the intermingled history of computer hardw
are and software, numerical algorithms, and mathematics. In addition, professional numerical analysts and others will find the handbook of real interest and utility because it builds on research by the mathematical software community over the last four decades.
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Describes the computation of mathematical functions in decimal arithmetic, including coverage of 256-bit floating-point formats
Covers a major part of the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, with highly accurate implementations in up to 10 floating-point formats
Describes implementation in the C programming language, and also provides interfaces to Ada, C#, C++, Fortran, Java, and Pascal
Pays extensive attention to little-understood aspects of floating-point and integer arithmetic, and to software portability, including to important historical architectures
Introduction
Iterative Solutions and Other Tools
Polynomial Approximations
Implementation Issues
The Floating-Point Environment
Converting Floating-Point Values to Integers
Random Numbers
Roots
Argument Reduction
Exponential and Logarithm
Trigonometric Functions
Hyperbolic Functions
Pair-Precision Arithmetic
Power Function
Complex Arithmetic Primitives
Quadratic Equations
Elementary Functions in Complex Arithmetic
The Greek Functions: Gamma, Psi, and Zeta
Error and Probability Functions
Elliptic Integral Functions
Bessel Functions
Testing the Library
Pair-Precision Elementary Functions
Accuracy of the Cody/Waite Algorithms
Improving Upon the Cody/Waite Algorithms
Floating-Point Output
Floating-Point Input
Appendix A: Ada Interface
Appendix B: C# Interface
Appendix C: C++ Interface
Appendix D: Decimal Arithmetic
Appendix E: Errata in the Cody/Waite Book
Appendix F: Fortran Interface
Appendix H: Historical Floating-Point Architectures
Appendix I: Integer Arithmetic
Appendix J: Java Interface
Appendix L: Letter Notation
Appendix P: Pascal Interface
All major computer programming languages—as well as the disciplines of science and engineering more broadly—require computation of elementary and special functions of mathematics. The MathCW Software Library emphasizes portability, precisely because the code needs to capable of use on a wide variety of platforms.
This highly comprehensive handbook provides a substantial advance in such computation, extending the function coverage of major programming languages well beyond their international standards, including full support for decimal floating-point arithmetic. Written with clarity and focusing on the C language, the work pays extensive attention to little-understood aspects of floating-point and integer arithmetic, and to software portability, as well as to important historical architectures. It extends support to a future 256-bit, floating-point format offering 70 decimal digits of precision.
Select Topics and Features:
references an exceptionally useful, author-maintained MathCW website, containing source code for the book´s software, compiled libraries for numerous systems, pre-built C compilers, and other related materials
offers a unique approach to covering mathematical-function computation using decimal arithmetic
provides extremely versatile appendices for interfaces to numerous other languages: Ada, C#, C++, Fortran, Java, and Pascal
presupposes only basic familiarity with computer programming in a common language, as well as early level algebra
supplies a library that readily adapts for existingillegalscripting languages, with minimal effort
supports both binary and decimal arithmetic, in up to 10 different floating-point formats
covers a significant portion (with highly accurate implementations) of the U.S National Institute of Standards and Technology´s 10-year project to codify mathematical functions
This highly practical text/reference is an invaluable tool for advanced undergraduates, recording many lessons of the intermingled history of computer hardware and software, numerical algorithms, and mathematics. In addition, professional numerical analysts and others will find the handbook of real interest and utility because it builds on research by the mathematical software community over the last four decades.
This highly comprehensive handbook provides a substantial advance in the computation of elementary and special functions of mathematics, extending the function coverage of major programming languages well beyond their international standards, including full support for decimal floating-point arithmetic. Written with clarity and focusing on the C language, the work pays extensive attention to little-understood aspects of floating-point and integer arithmetic, and to software portability, as well as to important historical architectures. It extends support to a future 256-bit, floating-point format offering 70 decimal digits of precision.
Select Topics and Features: references an exceptionally useful, author-maintained MathCW website, containing source code for the book's software, compiled libraries for numerous systems, pre-built
C compilers, and other related materials; offers a unique approach to covering mathematical-function computation using decimal arithmetic; provides extremely versatile appendices for interfaces to numerous other languages: Ada, C#, C++, Fortran, Java, and Pascal; presupposes only basic familiarity with computer programming in a common language, as well as early level algebra; supplies a library that readily adapts for existingillegalscripting languages, with minimal effort; supports both binary and decimal arithmetic, in up to 10 different floating-point formats; covers a significant portion (with highly accurate implementations) of the U.S National Institute of Standards and Technology's 10-year project to codify mathematical functions.
This highly practical text/reference is an invaluable tool for advanced undergraduates, recording many lessons of the intermingled history of computer hardw
are and software, numerical algorithms, and mathematics. In addition, professional numerical analysts and others will find the handbook of real interest and utility because it builds on research by the mathematical software communityover the last four decades.
Introduction.- Iterative Solutions and Other Tools.- Polynomial Approximations.- Implementation Issues.- The Floating-Point Environment.- Converting Floating-Point Values to Integers.- Random Numbers.- Roots.- Argument Reduction.- Exponential and Logarithm.- Trigonometric Functions.- Hyperbolic Functions.- Pair-Precision Arithmetic.- Power Function.- Complex Arithmetic Primitives.- Quadratic Equations.- Elementary Functions in Complex Arithmetic.- The Greek Functions: Gamma, Psi, and Zeta.- Error and Probability Functions.- Elliptic Integral Functions.- Bessel Functions.- Testing the Library.- Pair-Precision Elementary Functions.- Accuracy of the Cody/Waite Algorithms.- Improving Upon the Cody/Waite Algorithms.- Floating-Point Output.- Floating-Point Input.- Appendix A: Ada Interface.- Appendix B: C# Interface.- Appendix C: C++ Interface.- Appendix D: Decimal Arithmetic.- Appendix E: Errata in the Cody/Waite Book.- Appendix F: Fortran Interface.- Appendix H: Historical Floating-Point Architectures.- Appendix I: Integer Arithmetic.- Appendix J: Java Interface.- Appendix L: Letter Notation.- Appendix P: Pascal Interface.
Über den Autor
¿Dr. Nelson H.F. Beebe is a Research Professor and Software Specialist in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah, USA. He has a diverse background in chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, systems management, and typography, having studied, worked, and taught in three countries. He has written extensive software projects in numerous programming-language, operating-system, and hardware environments. His bibliographic database work has exposed him to a wide range of journals on current research.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction.- Iterative Solutions and Other Tools.- Polynomial Approximations.- Implementation Issues.- The Floating-Point Environment.- Converting Floating-Point Values to Integers.- Random Numbers.- Roots.- Argument Reduction.- Exponential and Logarithm.- Trigonometric Functions.- Hyperbolic Functions.- Pair-Precision Arithmetic.- Power Function.- Complex Arithmetic Primitives.- Quadratic Equations.- Elementary Functions in Complex Arithmetic.- The Greek Functions: Gamma, Psi, and Zeta.- Error and Probability Functions.- Elliptic Integral Functions.- Bessel Functions.- Testing the Library.- Pair-Precision Elementary Functions.- Accuracy of the Cody/Waite Algorithms.- Improving Upon the Cody/Waite Algorithms.- Floating-Point Output.- Floating-Point Input.- Appendix A: Ada Interface.- Appendix B: C# Interface.- Appendix C: C++ Interface.- Appendix D: Decimal Arithmetic.- Appendix E: Errata in the Cody/Waite Book.- Appendix F: Fortran Interface.- Appendix H: Historical Floating-Point Architectures.- Appendix I: Integer Arithmetic.- Appendix J: Java Interface.- Appendix L: Letter Notation.- Appendix P: Pascal Interface.
Klappentext
This highly comprehensive handbook provides a substantial advance in the computation of elementary and special functions of mathematics, extending the function coverage of major programming languages well beyond their international standards, including full support for decimal floating-point arithmetic. Written with clarity and focusing on the C language, the work pays extensive attention to little-understood aspects of floating-point and integer arithmetic, and to software portability, as well as to important historical architectures. It extends support to a future 256-bit, floating-point format offering 70 decimal digits of precision.
Select Topics and Features: references an exceptionally useful, author-maintained MathCW website, containing source code for the book¿s software, compiled libraries for numerous systems, pre-built C compilers, and other related materials; offers a unique approach to covering mathematical-function computation using decimal arithmetic; provides extremely versatile appendices for interfaces to numerous other languages: Ada, C#, C++, Fortran, Java, and Pascal; presupposes only basic familiarity with computer programming in a common language, as well as early level algebra; supplies a library that readily adapts for existingillegalscripting languages, with minimal effort; supports both binary and decimal arithmetic, in up to 10 different floating-point formats; covers a significant portion (with highly accurate implementations) of the U.S National Institute of Standards and Technology¿s 10-year project to codify mathematical functions.
This highly practical text/reference is an invaluable tool for advanced undergraduates, recording many lessons of the intermingled history of computer hardware and software, numerical algorithms, and mathematics. In addition, professional numerical analysts and others will find the handbook of real interest and utility because it builds on research by the mathematical software communityover the last four decades.
Describes the computation of mathematical functions in decimal arithmetic, including coverage of 256-bit floating-point formats
Covers a major part of the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, with highly accurate implementations in up to 10 floating-point formats
Describes implementation in the C programming language, and also provides interfaces to Ada, C#, C++, Fortran, Java, and Pascal
Pays extensive attention to little-understood aspects of floating-point and integer arithmetic, and to software portability, including to important historical architectures
