Abstract
The usual “implementation” of real numbers as floating point numbers on existing computers has the well-known disadvantage that most of the real numbers are not exactly representable in floating point. Also the four basic arithmetic operations can usually not be performed exactly.
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Alefeld, G., Rohn, J., Rump, S.M., Yamamoto, T. (2001). Introduction. In: Alefeld, G., Rohn, J., Rump, S., Yamamoto, T. (eds) Symbolic Algebraic Methods and Verification Methods. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6280-4_1
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