Tower of numeric types

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2011-02-15

2011-02-15

Wong, Don (Department: 2163)

Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language

Speech signal processing

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C708S204000, C708S206000, C707S756000, C707S705000

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07890320

ABSTRACT:
Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing a numeric tower that represents a structure supporting statically defined numeric data types. The numeric data types each are operable to implement a different but accurate representation of a particular value. Numeric operations are supported for the numeric tower that can be performed with any of the statically defined numeric data types. The numeric tower is extensible, and allows for additional statically defined numeric data types to be added, as well as operations. The numeric tower is also operable to detect overflow situations. For example, suppose a result of an operation will result in an overflow situation because the operation does not fit within a range supported by the particular numeric type. The system converts the numeric type to a different one of the numeric data types when the result does not fit within a range supported by the first one.

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