Anthony Ralston
Pages 243-244
Programming languages tailored to particular groups of users can often be constructed by removing unwanted features from a general purpose language. This paper describes the use of simulation techniques to predict the savings …
Mary Shaw
Pages 245-250
In constructing a general purpose programming language, a key issue is providing a sufficient set of data types and associated operations in a manner that permits both natural problem-oriented notation and efficient implementation …
Ben Wegbreit
Pages 251-264
A method is presented for calculating a string
B, belonging to a given regular language
L, which is “nearest” (in number of edit operations) to a given input string
&agr;.
B is viewed as a reasonable “correction” for the possibly …
Robert A. Wagner
Pages 265-268
Generalized logarithmic law is derived for the distribution of the first
t significant digits of a random digital integer. This result is then used to determine the distribution of the roundoff errors in floating-point operations …
Nai-Kuan Tsao
Pages 269-271
A number theory package is described which uses doubly linked list structures for storing multiprecise integers. The package has been coded in IBM's Basic Assembly Language and makes heavy use of the macro language and conditional …
M. C. Wunderlich, J. L. Selfridge
Pages 272-276
In the interests of producing portable mathematical software, it is highly desirable for a program to be able directly to obtain fundamental properties of the environment in which it is to run. The installer would then not be …
W. Morven Gentleman, Scott B. Marovich
Pages 276-277
This paper presents the background and algorithms for masking the rotational latency of a disk or drum. It discusses the anticipatory input and output of blocks of data to buffer and primary memories for a mono-programmed computer …
D. E. Gold, D. J. Kuck
Pages 278-288
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