Overview: Gives an up-to-date presentation of hardware-oriented and software-oriented methods used to compute elementary functions (sine, cosine, exponential, and logarithms), the most commonly used mathematica."An important topic, which is on the boundary between numerical analysis and computer science …. I found the book well written and containing much interesting material, most of the time disseminated in specialized papers published in specialized journals difficult to find. Moreover, there are very few books on these topics and they are not recent." Numerical Algorithms (review of the fi
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