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Floating-Point Mathematics

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This chapter describes floating-point mathematics for real-time C++ using built-in floating-point types such as

and

. The first sections of this chapter introduce floating-point arithmetic, mathematical constants, elementary transcendental functions and higher transcendental functions. The last sections of this chapter cover more advanced topics including complex-numbered mathematics, compile-time evaluation of floating-point functions and generic numeric programming.

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Kormanyos, C. (2015). Floating-Point Mathematics. In: Real-Time C++. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47810-3_12

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