IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic

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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:IEEE_754
gptkbp:appliesTo gptkb:personal_computer
gptkb:programming_language
gptkb:software
gptkbp:category gptkb:standard
computer science
numerical analysis
gptkbp:defines formats for binary floating-point arithmetic
formats for decimal floating-point arithmetic
gptkbp:domain computer arithmetic
gptkbp:firstPublished 1985
gptkbp:governs floating-point exceptions
floating-point computation
floating-point operations
floating-point representation
floating-point rounding
gptkbp:hasPart gptkb:IEEE_754-1985
gptkb:IEEE_754-2008
gptkb:IEEE_754-2019
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic
gptkbp:includes double precision format
half precision format
quadruple precision format
single precision format
extended precision format
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:C_programming_language
gptkb:Java_programming_language
gptkb:Fortran_programming_language
gptkb:Python_programming_language
hardware design
gptkbp:latestReleaseVersion gptkb:IEEE_754-2019
gptkbp:publishedBy gptkb:Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers
gptkbp:relatedStandard gptkb:IEEE_854
gptkb:ISO/IEC/IEEE_60559
gptkbp:specifies exception handling
operations for floating-point arithmetic
quiet NaN
rounding rules
signaling NaN
NaN (Not a Number)
denormalized numbers
infinity representation
subnormal numbers
gptkbp:usedBy embedded systems
microprocessors
scientific computing
GPUs
financial computing
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:IEEE_754
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4