Second Edition of successful, well-reviewed Birkhauser book, which sold 866 copies in North America

Provides an up-to-date presentation by including new results, examples, and problems throughout the text

The second edition adds a chapter on multiple-precision arithmetic, and new algorithms invented since 1997

1 Introduction.- 2 Computer Arithmetic.- 3 Polynomial Approximations.- 4 Table-Based Methods.- 5 Shift-and-Add algorithms.- 6 The CORDIC Algorithm.- 7 Other Shift-and-Add Algorithms.- 8 Range Reduction.- 9 Final Rounding.- 10 Miscellaneous.