However, in specific situations, the macro processor can evaluate operands that represent numbers as numeric values. When the macro processor evaluates an expression that contains an arithmetic ...

In this video, John Gustafson from the National University of Singapore presents: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic. “A new data type called a “posit” is designed for direct ...

Operands in arithmetic or logical expressions are always text. However, an operand that represents a number can be temporarily converted to a numeric value when an expression is evaluated. By default, ...