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Performing Arithmetic Operations on Round-to-Nearest Representations

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During any composite computation there is a constant need for rounding intermediate results before they can participate in further processing. Recently a class of number representations denoted RN-Codings were introduced, allowing an un-biased rounding-to-nearest to take place by a simple truncation, with the property that problems with double-roundings are avoided. In this paper we first investigate a particular encoding of the binary representation. This encoding is generalized to any radix and digit set; however radix complement representations for even values of the radix turn out to be particularly feasible. The encoding is essentially an ordinary radix complement representation with an appended round-bit, but still allowing rounding to nearest by truncation and thus avoiding problems with double-roundings. Conversions from radix complement to these round-to-nearest representations can be performed in constant time, whereas conversion the other way in general takes at least logarithmic time. Not only is rounding-to-nearest a constant time operation, but so is also sign inversion, both of which are at best log-time operations on ordinary 2's complement representations. Addition and multiplication on such fixed-point representations are first analyzed and defined in such a way that rounding information can be carried along in a meaningful way, at minimal cost. The analysis is carried through for a compact (canonical) encoding using 2's complement representation, supplied with a round-bit. Based on the fixed-point encoding it is shown possible to define floating point representations, and a sketch of the implementation of an FPU is presented.
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ensl-00441933 , version 1 (17-12-2009)

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Adrien Panhaleux, Peter Kornerup, Jean-Michel Muller. Performing Arithmetic Operations on Round-to-Nearest Representations. 2009. ⟨ensl-00441933⟩
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