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Sat Jun  6 13:23:05 1981
elementary functions / IEEE arithmetic






            University of California at Berkeley
           Summer Workshop on the Computation of
	   Elementary Transcendental Functions
	           June - Sept, 1981
A small number of students and others will collaborate  this
summer, some working full-time and others part-time, to pro-
duce computer programs that calculate  elementary  transcen-
dental functions like

     log, exp, tan, arctan, sin, cos, arcsin, arccos, ...

for use with the proposed IEEE standard for  floating  point
arithmetic  (see  the IEEE magazine "Computer", March 1981).
Some money is available to pay a few  students  as  research
assistants;  other  participants are expected to be supplied
by interested industries in  the  San  Francisco  Bay  Area.
Prerequisites for participation in the workshop are

1.  An interest in the subject.

2.  Proficiency in programming in C or Pascal or Fortran  or
in  assembly  language  on  the  VAX  or PDP 11 or any other
machine on which the proposed standard has been implemented.

3.  Competency in numerical analysis and linear algebra  and
calculus at the upper division undergraduate level.

Would-be participants should contact the undersigned.




                                        Professor W. Kahan
                                        EE & CS Department
                                        567 Evans Hall
                                        University of California
                                        Berkeley, California 94720
                                        (415) 642-5638
or via network mail:
c/o  fateman@berkeley (arpa)
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