Case in point: we’re just now getting CPU instructions for JavaScript floating point numbers. The 1970s and 80s wasn’t the garbage fire of JavaScript instructions in silicon, instead they ...

Here’s how it works. The traditional view is that the floating-point number format is superior to the fixed-point number format when it comes to representing sound digitally. In fact, while it may be ...

When you think about it, it's surprising how many programming tasks don't require the use of floating point numbers. If you're an embedded systems programmer, you'd ...

A way to represent very large and very small numbers using the same quantity of numeric positions. Floating point also enables calculating a wide range of numbers very quickly. Although floating ...

Performing JavaScript addition may seem like a simple task, until you discover the number of different ways you can add them. Mathematical calculations are often critical operations that require ...

Does it make sense to use floating point division to replace simpler division? According to [Wojciech Mula] in a recent post, the answer is yes. The plan is simple: cast the 8-bit numbers into 32 ...

He's the Chief Architect for Spread.NET, and implemented the Spread Calculation Engine and the Chart component. Floating point numbers have limited precision. This can lead to small approximation ...

Today a company called Bounded Floating Point announced a “breakthrough patent in processor design, which allows representation of real numbers accurate to the last digit for the first time in ...

With floating point numbers – in the form A x 10^B – the decimal point in the mantissa (A) is free to float; you can place it anywhere, according to what best suits the calculation being carried out ...

Before becoming adopted as a catch-phrase on TikTok, the term ‘flop’ was a short-hand for floating point operations per second. Floating point numbers are commonly known as “real” numbers ...