Arbitrary-Precision Floating-Point Library

ARPFloat is an implementation of arbitrary precision floating point data structures and utilities. The library can be used to emulate floating point operation, in software, or create new floating point data types. no_std environments are supported by disabling the std feature.

Example

```rust use arpfloat::Float; use arpfloat::newfloattype;

// Create a new type: 15 bits exponent, 112 significand. type FP128 = newfloattype!(15, 112);

// Use Newton-Raphson to find the square root of 5. let n = FP128::from_u64(5);

let two = FP128::from_u64(2); let mut x = n;

for _ in 0..1000 { x = (x + (n / x))/two; }

println!("fp128: {}", x); println!("fp64: {}", x.as_f64()); ```

The program above will print this output: fp128: 2.2360679774997896964091736687312763 fp64: 2.23606797749979

The library also provides API that exposes rounding modes, and low-level operations.

```rust // Explicit control over rounding modes: let val = FP128::mulwithrm(y, z, RoundingMode::NearestTiesToEven);

// View the internals of the float:
let fp = FP16::from_i64(15);
let m = fp.get_mantissa();

// Prints FP[+ E=+3 M=11110000000]
fp.dump();

```

Control the rounding-mode for type conversion: ```rust use arpfloat::{FP16, FP32, RoundingMode}; let x = FP32::from_u64(2649);

// Convert from FP64 to FP16. let b : FP16 = x.castwithrm(RoundingMode::Zero); println!("{}", b); // Prints 2648! ```

The examples directory contains a program that computes many digits of pi in float-256.

Resources

There are excellent resources out there, some of which are referenced in the code:

• Books:
  • Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic 2010th by Jean-Michel Muller et al.
  • Elementary Functions: Algorithms and Implementation by Jean-Michel Muller.
  • Modern Computer Arithmetic by Brent and Zimmermann.
• Papers:
  • How to print floating-point numbers accurately by Steele, White.
  • What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic by David Goldberg.
  • Fast Multiple-Precision Evaluation of Elementary Functions by Richard Brent.
• Other excellent software implementations: APFloat, RYU, libBF, newlib, musl, etc.

License

Licensed under Apache-2.0