Ren-Cang Li

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-94-850

, 1994

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1994/CSD-94-850.pdf

This note attempts to give a detailed error analysis of Reciproot Algorithm proposed by Kahan and Ng in 1986. It is showed that the algorithm yields a correctly rounded square root under all rounding modes.


BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Li:CSD-94-850,
    Author= {Li, Ren-Cang},
    Title= {Reciproot Algorithm -- Correctly Rounded?},
    Year= {1994},
    Month= {Dec},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1994/5875.html},
    Number= {UCB/CSD-94-850},
    Abstract= {This note attempts to give a detailed error analysis of Reciproot Algorithm proposed by Kahan and Ng in 1986. It is showed that the algorithm yields a correctly rounded square root under all rounding modes.},
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Report
%A Li, Ren-Cang 
%T Reciproot Algorithm -- Correctly Rounded?
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 1994
%@ UCB/CSD-94-850
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1994/5875.html
%F Li:CSD-94-850