Abstract
In this paper we present a probabilistic approach for the estimation of realistic error bounds appearing in the execution of basic algebraic floating point operations. Experimental results are carried out for the extended product the extended sum the inner product of random normalised numbers the product of random normalised ma-trices and the solution of lower triangular systems The ordinary and probabilistic bounds are calculated for all the above processes and gen-erally in all the executed examples the probabilistic bounds are much more realistic.