MPFR Algorithms

Algorithms used in MPFR are described in the algorithms.tex file, available from the MPFR Subversion repository. You can also directly view a version in PDF online (however it may not always be up-to-date).

Other papers on MPFR include:

• Laurent Fousse, Guillaume Hanrot, Vincent Lefèvre, Patrick Pélissier, Paul Zimmermann. MPFR: A Multiple-Precision Binary Floating-Point Library With Correct Rounding. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 33(2), June 2007. BibTeX entry.
• Laurent Fousse, Guillaume Hanrot, Vincent Lefèvre, Patrick Pélissier, Paul Zimmermann. MPFR: A Multiple-Precision Binary Floating-Point Library With Correct Rounding. Research report RR-5753, INRIA, November 2005.
• Y.-F. S. Pétermann and Jean-Luc Rémy. Arbitrary Precision Error Analysis for computing ζ(s) with the Cohen-Olivier algorithm: Complete description of the real case and preliminary report on the general case. Research report RR-5852, INRIA, February 2006.
• Vincent Lefèvre. The Generic Multiple-Precision Floating-Point Addition With Exact Rounding (as in the MPFR Library). In Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Real Numbers and Computers, pages 135–145, Dagstuhl, Germany, November 2004.
• Emmanuel Jeandel. Évaluation rapide de fonctions hypergéométriques. Technical report RT-0242, INRIA, July 2000.

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