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  2. Rounding - Wikipedia

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    This variant of the round-to-nearest method is also called convergent rounding, statistician's rounding, Dutch rounding, Gaussian rounding, odd–even rounding, [6] or bankers' rounding. [ 7 ] This is the default rounding mode used in IEEE 754 operations for results in binary floating-point formats.

  3. Round-off error - Wikipedia

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    Round-by-chop: The base-expansion of is truncated after the ()-th digit. This rounding rule is biased because it always moves the result toward zero. Round-to-nearest: () is set to the nearest floating-point number to . When there is a tie, the floating-point number whose last stored digit is even (also, the last digit, in binary form, is equal ...

  4. Interval arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    The main objective of interval arithmetic is to provide a simple way of calculating upper and lower bounds of a function's range in one or more variables. These endpoints are not necessarily the true supremum or infimum of a range since the precise calculation of those values can be difficult or impossible; the bounds only need to contain the function's range as a subset.

  5. Kahan summation algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The exact result is 10005.85987, which rounds to 10005.9. With a plain summation, each incoming value would be aligned with sum, and many low-order digits would be lost (by truncation or rounding). The first result, after rounding, would be 10003.1. The second result would be 10005.81828 before rounding and 10005.8 after rounding. This is not ...

  6. Floating-point error mitigation - Wikipedia

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    Interval arithmetic is a mathematical technique used to put bounds on rounding errors and measurement errors in mathematical computation. Values are intervals, which can be represented in various ways, such as: [6] inf-sup: a lower bound and an upper bound on the true value;

  7. Floating-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    round to nearest, where ties round to the nearest even digit in the required position (the default and by far the most common mode) round to nearest, where ties round away from zero (optional for binary floating-point and commonly used in decimal) round up (toward +∞; negative results thus round toward zero)

  8. Machine epsilon - Wikipedia

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    In the mainstream definition, machine epsilon is independent of rounding method, and is defined simply as the difference between 1 and the next larger floating point number. In the formal definition, machine epsilon is dependent on the type of rounding used and is also called unit roundoff, which has the symbol bold Roman u.

  9. Catastrophic cancellation - Wikipedia

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    In IEEE 754 binary64 arithmetic, evaluating the alternative factoring (+) gives the correct result exactly (with no rounding), but evaluating the naive expression gives the floating-point number = _, of which less than half the digits are correct and the other (underlined) digits reflect the missing terms +, lost due to rounding when ...