Toward Correctly Rounded Transcendentals

—The Table Maker’s Dilemma is the problem of always getting correctly rounded results when computing the elementary functions. After a brief presentation of this problem, we present new developments that have helped us to solve this problem for the double-precision exponential function in a small domain. These new results show that this problem can be solved, at least for the double-precision format, for the most usual functions.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 1998
• Where: TC
• Authors: Vincent Lefèvre, Jean-Michel Muller, Arnaud Tisserand
• Keywords: Double-precision Exponential Function, Elementary Functions, Information Technology, Table Maker Dilemma, TC 1998