multiple precision arithmetic


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multiple precision arithmetic

[′məl·tə·pəl prə¦sizh·ən ə′rith·mə‚tik]
(computer science)
Method of increasing the precision of a result by increasing the length of the number to encompass two or more computer words in length.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Although overhead of data transfer between the global memory and the GPU is very high, it is still advantageous to employ this strategy rather than execute redundant computations requiring the multiple precision arithmetic. Access time to the global memory was identified as a rate-limiting step in the multiple precision computations on GPU [35].
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