Paper on the accuracy of math functions

JeffreySarnoff
Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:02:11 +0000
Numerics

Mantas Mikaitis and Tejaswa Rizyal have this well developed, reliable paper

arXiv.org

Accuracy of Mathematical Functions in Julia

Basic computer arithmetic operations, such as $+$, $\times$, or $÷$ are correctly rounded, whilst mathematical functions such as $e^x$, $\ln(x)$, or $\sin(x)$ in general are not, meaning that separate implementations may provide different results...

The software is available on github:

github.com

GitHub - north-numerical-computing/MathBenchmark.jl: An easy to configure and deploy software package...

An easy to configure and deploy software package for measuring the errors of mathematical functions in the Julia programming language.

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