This video is an introduction to Double Double arithmetic. Which is a technique used to greatly improve the precision of floating point computations in programming. It was first proposed by T. J. (Dirk) Dekker in his paper from 1971.

Link to Dekker's original paper: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~pbarfuss...

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