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April 1, 1974Journal of the ACM821 citationsOpen Access

The Parallel Evaluation of General Arithmetic Expressions

RBRichard P. BrentAustralian National University

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It is shown that arithmetic expressions with n ≥ 1 variables and constants; operations of addition, multiplication, and division; and any depth of parenthesis nesting can be evaluated in time 4 log 2 n + 10( n - 1)/ p using p ≥ 1 processors which can independently perform arithmetic operations in unit time. This bound is within a constant factor of the best possible. A sharper result is given for expressions without the division operation, and the question of numerical stability is discussed.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a19d6ee196cd56b09eacb85https://doi.org/10.1145/321812.321815
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