IEEE Floating Point - Operations

Operations

Required operations for a supported arithmetic format (including the basic formats) include:

  • Arithmetic operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide, square root, fused multiply–add, remainder, etc.)
  • Conversions (between formats, to and from strings, etc.)
  • Scaling and (for decimal) quantizing
  • Copying and manipulating the sign (abs, negate, etc.)
  • Comparisons and total ordering
  • Classification and testing for NaNs, etc.
  • Testing and setting flags
  • Miscellaneous operations.

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