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US 9,311,049 B2Granted
System to improve numereical conversions and associated methods
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorAli Y. Duale
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Abstract
A system to improve numerical conversion may include a data processor and a controller configured to convert a floating-point number from the data processor to more than one different floating-point type number. The conversion may enable the selection of the more than one different floating-point type number that satisfies the requirements of an executing application and/or is closest to the original number.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a data processor;
- an executing application;
- and
- a controller configured to convert an original floating-point number from the data processor to more than one different floating-point type number and present the more than one different floating-point type number to the executing application;
- and
- wherein the executing application selects one of the more than one different floating-point type number that at least one of satisfies the requirements of the executing application and is closest to the original floating-point number.
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A method comprising:
- configuring an automated controller to convert an original floating-point number to more than one different floating-point type number;
- presenting the more than one different floating-point type number to an executing application;
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- selecting by the executing application the more than one different floating-point type number that at least one of satisfies the requirements of the executing application and is closest to the original floating-point number.
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A computer program product to improve numerical conversion, the computer program product comprising:
- a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
- computer readable program code configured to configure an automated controller to convert an original floating-point number to more than one different floating-point type number;
- computer readable program code configured to present the more than one different floating-point type number to an executing application;
- and
- computer readable program code configured to select by the executing application the more than one different floating-point type number that at least one of satisfies the requirements of the executing application and is closest to the original floating-point number.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.