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Marius Cornea is a Principal Engineer in Intel's Software & Solutions Group. He received a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Cluj, Romania and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. Since joining Intel in 1994, his work was related to scientific computation, design and development of numerical algorithms, floating-point emulation, exception handling, and new floating-point instruction definition and analysis. His e-mail is marius.cornea at intel.com. |
Intel® Decimal Floating-Point Math Library
By Marius Cornea (Intel) (1 posts) on March 6, 2008 at 11:29 am
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Decimal floating-point operations were a necessity from the beginnings of the modern age of computing. However, the lack of a good standard for decimal computations has led to the existence of numerous proprietary software packages for decimal or decimal-like computation, most based on fixed-point decimal types, and each with its own characteristics and capabilities. A [...]