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IEEE

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A large professional group for electrical and electronics engineers who share research and set industry rules

noun
/ˈaɪˌiːˈiːˈiː/

Specialized

: IEEE

The majority of applications run with the IEEE defaults: IEEE exceptions are disabled and round-to-nearest is in effect.
IEEE standard
IEEE 754
IEEE floating-point

Examples

For all these reasons, advanced techniques should be integrated within the IEEE 802.11p standard to overcome such scalability issues.

Academic text (2012)
Programming languages have begun to include IEEE floating-point as a required data type.

Academic text (1999)
A similar choice had to be made in the IEEE standard for the four different styles of rounding.

Academic text (1999)
The specific choice we made was to provide IEEE Floating-Point support in OS/390 Version 2 Release 6.

Academic text (1999)
Special numbers of the IEEE 754 standard are supported in hardware without trapping to software.

Academic text (1999)
The processors include a new IEEE binary floating-point architecture and additional 1998 RAS improvements.

Academic text (1999)
DB2 has had its own conversion routines between IEEE floating-point and HFP since Version 2 Release 3.

Academic text (1999)
The IBM PowerPC 603e floating-point unit is an IEEE-754-compliant fused multiply-add design.

Academic text (1996)
The IEEE is known for its role in developing industry standards for electrical engineering.
Every year, the IEEE holds a conference where professionals share their latest research in electronics.

Surface Forms

IEEE singular

IEEEs plural

Etymology

IEEE comes from the first letters of the full name Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, so the name links directly to those four words. That's why IEEE refers to the 'organization' that brings together electrical and electronics engineers and sets industry standards.