An Example in "Significant-Digit" Arithmetic*

Different methods of handling the summing process
for the geometric series are shown to give 
results indicating widely differing significances when carried
out in a machine incorporating "significant-digit" 
arithmetic.

CACM January, 1964

Miller, R. H.

CA640107 JB March 10, 1978  5:34 AM

1148	4	1148
1148	5	1148
1148	5	1148
1148	5	1148
85	5	1148
3131	5	1148
893	6	1148
1148	6	1148