The Top 500 list of supercomputers has come and gone again, and vendors have engaged in their usual round of self-congratulations and performance posting. All the talk of FLOPs can get a little ...

Multiplication on a common microcontroller is easy. But division is much more difficult. Even with hardware assistance, a 32-bit division on a modern 64-bit x86 CPU can run between 9 and 15 cycles.

AI is all about data, and the representation of the data matters strongly. But after focusing primarily on 8-bit integers and 32‑bit floating-point numbers, the industry is now looking at new formats.

Are you frustrated by the imprecision of floating-point numbers like doubles, which store both rational and irrational numbers such as π or √2 in the same limited way? This often leads to preventable ...

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An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of both precision and accuracy.

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Originally used in applications related to national security and now frequently used for data-intensive and computation-heavy scientific and engineering purposes across industries, supercomputers aren ...

Cryptocurrency brokerage firm Floating Point Group has confirmed it has halted trading, withdrawals and deposits on its platform after falling victim to a cyberattack on June 11. FPG estimates the ...