Sources

• Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2, Seminumerical Algorithms (Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1981) gives an overview of floating-point number systems and of the accuracy of calculations. This book is also the definitive source on random number generators, so it may be useful background to those facilities of the CommonPoint system.
• William H. Press et al., Numerical Recipes in C (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988) provides basic cookbook solutions (in straight C) to a wide variety of numerical problems, along with some general programming strategies.
• Milton Abramowitz and Irene A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964) contains a wealth of facts pertaining to the transcendental functions.
• IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic (ANSI/IEEE Standard 754-1985) is the terse specification of the arithmetic available on all CommonPoint platforms.
• IEEE Standard for Radix-Independent Floating-Point Arithmetic (ANSI/IEEE 854-1987) extends 754 to embrace decimal computation as well. It includes more rationale.
• Jim Thomas, Floating-Point C Extensions (ANSI Report X3J11/94-035, 1994) specifies extensions to C to support numerical computation, especially on platforms providing IEEE standard arithmetic.