Floating Point/Rounding
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Rounding
[edit | edit source]IEEE 754 specified four distinct rounding modes. We will talk about those modes, and their effects in this chapter. Also, rounding can play an important role in the accuracy of a floating-point computation, so we will discuss those effects here as well.
Rounding Modes
[edit | edit source]Rounding Errors
[edit | edit source]Relative Error
[edit | edit source]Relative error is one measure of error commonly used with floating point numbers. If is an approximation to , then the relative error, , is defined as