论文信息 - An example in “significant-digit” arithmetic

An example in “significant-digit” arithmetic

Different methods of handling the summing process for the geometric series are shown to give results indicating widely differing significances when carried out in a machine incorporating “significant-digit” arithmetic.

R. H. Miller

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