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Re: more patents on interval arithmetic implementations



Concerning accurate dot product and summation there are
yet more and very fast alternatives:

http://www.ti3.tu-harburg.de/paper/rump/RuOgOi07I.pdf

http://www.ti3.tu-harburg.de/paper/rump/RuOgOi07II.pdf

http://www.ti3.tu-harburg.de/paper/rump/Ru08b.pdf

Since dot products are transformed into summation, all summation
routines can be used to compute dot products.

Best wishes for the New Year

Siegfried M. Rump





On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:03:02 -0100, Arnold Neumaier <Arnold.Neumaier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Arnold Neumaier schrieb:

more patents, not yet mentioned in my previous two mails:


Several old patents, two by Kulisch, one by Miranker, and one by Rump,
are related to items 2 and 3 (accurate sum and inner product) in
Section 5.1 of the Vienna proposal:

- Circuitry for generating sums, especially scalar products
   http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4866653/fulltext.html

- Circuitry for generating scalar products and sums of floating point
   numbers with maximum accuracy
   http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4622650/fulltext.html

- Systolic super summation device
   http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4751665/fulltext.html

- Method and circuit arrangement for adding floating point numbers
   http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4866651/fulltext.html


There are, however, recent alternative (public and better)
implementation techniques by
    Ogita, Rump, and Oishhi
    Accurate sum and dot product
    http://www.ti3.tu-harburg.de/paper/rump/OgRuOi05.pdf


Arnold Neumaier



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