BS 7237:1990

Committees responsible
National foreword
1. Scope
1.1 Implementation objectives
1.2 Inclusions
1.3 Exclusions
2. Definitions
3. Formats
3.1 Sets of values
3.2 Basic formats
3.3 Extended formats
3.4 Combinations of formats
4. Rounding
4.1 Round to nearest
4.2 Directed roundings
4.3 Rounding precision
5. Operations
5.1 Arithmetic
5.2 Square root
5.3 Floating-point conversions
5.4 Conversions between floating point and integer
5.5 Round floating-point number to integral value
5.6 Binary - decimal conversion
5.7 Comparison
6. Infinity, NaNs and signed zero
6.1 Infinity arithmetic
6.2 Operations with NaNs
6.3 The sign bit
7. Exceptions
7.1 Invalid operations
7.2 Division by zero
7.3 Overflow
7.4 Underflow
7.5 Inexact
8. Traps
8.1 Trap handler
8.2 Precedence
Appendix
A. Recommended functions and predicates