New Directions in Floating-Point Arithmetic
Nelson H. F. Beebe, Theodore E. Simos, George B. Maroulis · AIP conference proceedings · 2007
This article briefly describes the history of floating‐point arithmetic, the development and features of IEEE standards for such arithmetic, desirable features of new implementations of floating‐point hardware, and discusses work‐in‐progress aimed at making decimal floating‐point arithmetic widely available across many architectures, operating systems, and programming languages.