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@Article{Scott:1991:MCS,
  author =       "Thomas J. Scott",
  title =        "Mathematics and computer science at odds over real
                 numbers",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "23",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "130--139",
  month =        mar,
  year =         "1991",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/107004.107029;
                 https://doi.org/10.1145/107005.107029",
  ISBN =         "0-89791-377-9",
  ISBN-13 =      "978-0-89791-377-5",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sat Nov 17 18:57:15 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "DBLP;
                 http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/sigcse/sigcse1991.html#Scott91;
                 http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/fparith.bib;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1990.bib",
  note =         "22nd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science
                 Education.",
  URL =          "ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/mirrors/ftp.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Math/fparith.bib;
                 ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/mirrors/ftp.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Misc/DBLP/1991.bib",
  abstract =     "Discusses the `real numbers' data type as implemented
                 by `floating point' numbers. Floating point
                 implementations and a theorem that characterizes their
                 truncations are presented. A teachable floating point
                 system is presented, chosen so that most problems can
                 be worked out with paper and pencil. Then major
                 differences between floating point number systems and
                 the continuous real number system are presented.
                 Important floating point formats are next discussed.
                 Two examples derived from actual computing practice on
                 mainframes, minicomputers, and PCs are presented. The
                 paper concludes with a discussion of where floating
                 point arithmetic should be taught in standard courses
                 in the ACM curriculum.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  affiliation =  "Dept. of Comput. Sci., Western Illinois Univ., Macomb,
                 IL, USA",
  classification = "C0220 (Education and training); C5230 (Digital
                 arithmetic methods)",
  confdate =     "7-8 March 1991",
  conflocation = "San Antonio, TX, USA",
  confsponsor =  "ACM",
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
  keywords =     "ACM curriculum; Computer science; Floating point
                 arithmetic; Floating point formats; Floating point
                 number systems; Real number data types; Standard
                 courses; Teaching; Truncations",
  thesaurus =    "Computer science education; Data structures; Digital
                 arithmetic; Educational courses; Number theory",
}

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