Special Feature an Implementation Guide to a Proposed Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic
@article{Coonen1980SpecialFA, title={Special Feature an Implementation Guide to a Proposed Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic}, author={Jerome T. Coonen}, journal={Computer}, year={1980}, volume={13}, pages={68-79} }
This guide to an IEEE draft standard provides practical algorithms for floating-point arithmetic operations and suggests the hardware/software mix for handling exceptions.
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