Ieee standard for binary floating-point arithmetic

This standard is a product of the Floating-Point Working Group of the Microprocessor Standards Subcommittee of the Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society. This work was sponsored by the Technical Committee on Microprocessors and Minicomputers. Draft 8.0 of this standard was published to solicit public comments. [FOOTNOTE 1: Computer Magazine vol 14, no 3, March 1981.] Implementation techniques can be found in An Implementation Guide to a Proposed Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic by Jerome T. Coonen, [FOOTNOTE 2: Computer Magazine vol 13, no 1, January 1980.] which was based on a still earlier draft of the proposal.