In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic on subsets of real numbers formed by a significand (a signed sequence of a fixed number of digits...
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IEEE 754 (redirect from IEEE floating-point arithmetic)
The IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) is a technical standard for floating-point arithmetic originally established in 1985 by the...
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754 floating-point standard noted, "For now the 10-byte Extended format is a tolerable compromise between the value of extra-precise arithmetic and the...
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any floating-point hardware, the CPU emulates it using a series of simpler fixed-point arithmetic operations that run on the integer arithmetic logic...
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Decimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic refers to both a representation and operations on decimal floating-point numbers. Working directly with decimal...
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Double-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory;...
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Language-independent arithmetic Primitive data type Scientific notation Crandall, Richard E.; Papadopoulos, Jason S. (2002-05-08). "Octuple-precision floating point on...
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computing, half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern computers)...
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Zuse in 1936, was the first computer with floating-point arithmetic and was thus susceptible to floating-point error. Early computers, however, with operation...
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Floating-point arithmetic is needed for very large or very small real numbers, or computations that require a large dynamic range. Floating-point representation...
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Block floating point (BFP) is a method used to provide an arithmetic approaching floating point while using a fixed-point processor. BFP assigns a group...
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Gustafson proposed the Unum number system, a variant of tapered floating-point arithmetic with an exact bit added to the representation and some interval...
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AVX-512 (section Floating-point arithmetic)
Single precision (4FMAPS) – vector instructions for deep learning, floating point, single precision. VL, DQ, BW: introduced with Skylake-X/SP and Cannon...
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operations. While Java's floating-point arithmetic is largely based on IEEE 754 (Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic), certain features are not...
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Significand (redirect from Mantissa of a floating point number)
the word used by IEEE 754, an important technical standard for floating-point arithmetic. In mathematics, the term "argument" may also be ambiguous, since...
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Division by zero (category Computer arithmetic)
done with floating-point arithmetic, which since the 1980s has been standardized by the IEEE 754 specification. In IEEE floating-point arithmetic, numbers...
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Turbo Pascal (section Floating-point arithmetic)
era did not have a floating-point coprocessor so all floating-point arithmetic had to be done in software. Borland's own floating-point algorithms on Real...
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NaN (redirect from Java.lang.ArithmeticException)
and symbolic computation or other extensions to basic floating-point arithmetic. In floating-point calculations, NaN is not the same as infinity, although...
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numeric values by using a floating radix point. A floating-point variable can represent a wider range of numbers than a fixed-point variable of the same bit...
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included IEEE binary floating-point units which conform to the IEEE 754 Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic. IEEE decimal floating-point was added to IBM...
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Extended precision (redirect from 80-bit floating point format)
design that incorporate a floating-point unit (FPU). The Intel 8087 was the first x86 device which supported floating-point arithmetic in hardware. It was designed...
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C99 (section IEEE 754 floating-point support)
better use of available computer hardware, such as IEEE 754-1985 floating-point arithmetic, and compiler technology. The C11 version of the C programming...
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IEEE 754-2008 revision (category Floating point)
known as IEEE 754r) is a revision of the IEEE 754 standard for floating-point arithmetic. It was published in August 2008 and is a significant revision...
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performs arithmetic in x86 80-bit floating-point and then rounds the result to IEEE 754 binary64 floating-point. Compared with the fixed-point number system...
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The term arithmetic underflow (also floating-point underflow, or just underflow) is a condition in a computer program where the result of a calculation...
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refer to: Floating Point, a jazz music album by John McLaughlin Floating Points, a British electronic music DJ and producer Floating Point Systems, an...
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fixed-point arithmetic, as the systems lack hardware floating-point units. The PlayStation transformation coprocessor supports 16-bit fixed point with...
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Acorn Archimedes (section Floating-point arithmetic)
hardware support for floating-point arithmetic as standard, but the system was designed so that one might be added, with a floating-point co-processor instruction...
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Subnormal number (category Computer arithmetic)
called denormals) that fill the underflow gap around zero in floating-point arithmetic. Any non-zero number with magnitude smaller than the smallest...
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since 1964 Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the Illinois ILLIAC III computer in 1966 Hexadecimal floating-point arithmetic in the SDS Sigma 7 computer...
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