Floating point also enables calculating a wide range of numbers very quickly. Although floating point dates back thousands of years, the concept is the same today. In a computer, the same quantity ...

The splashy launch of their new Pentium chip in 1993 was a huge event. Unfortunately an esoteric bug in the floating-point division module came to the public’s attention. [Ken Shirriff]’s ...

The industry also is updating the standards for floating-point (FP) arithmetic. “There is a great deal of research and study on new data types in AI, as it is an area of rapid innovation,” said David ...