• standard integer arithmetic logic units to perform rational number calculations. Negative values are usually represented in binary fixed-point format as a...
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  • Fixed point may refer to: Fixed point (mathematics), a value that does not change under a given transformation Fixed-point arithmetic, a manner of doing...
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    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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  • includes: Fixed-point arithmetic Floating-point arithmetic Interval arithmetic Arbitrary-precision arithmetic Modular arithmetic Multi-modular arithmetic p-adic...
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    Abacus (redirect from Abacus arithmetic)
    1⁄2, 1⁄4, and 1⁄12 in Roman abacus), and a decimal point can be imagined for fixed-point arithmetic. Any particular abacus design supports multiple methods...
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  • floating-point calculations. For such cases, it is a more accurate measure than measuring instructions per second.[citation needed] Floating-point arithmetic is...
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    II. In contrast to the Z1, the Z2 used 16-bit fixed-point arithmetic instead of 22-bit floating point. Zuse presented the Z2 in 1940 to members of the...
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  • 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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  • the host system. This contrasts with the faster fixed-precision arithmetic found in most arithmetic logic unit (ALU) hardware, which typically offers...
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    the Rader–Brenner algorithm, are intrinsically less stable. In fixed-point arithmetic, the finite-precision errors accumulated by FFT algorithms are worse...
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    various sticky bits operation modes are available. Fixed-point arithmetic is often used to speed up arithmetic processing. Single-cycle operations to increase...
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    floating-point hardware, the CPU emulates it using a series of simpler fixed-point arithmetic operations that run on the integer arithmetic logic unit...
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    available in many different variants, some with fixed-point arithmetic and some with floating-point arithmetic. The TMS320 processors were fabricated on MOS...
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    extensions to the C language to support exotic features such as fixed-point arithmetic, multiple distinct memory banks, and basic I/O operations. In 2008...
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    arithmetic (also known as fixed-point arithmetic), for faster rendering on computers without math coprocessors. Since then, floating-point arithmetic...
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  • with version 1.8, Metapost allows floating-point arithmetic with 64 bits (default: 32 bit fixed-point arithmetic) Many of the limitations of MetaPost derive...
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  • Real data type (category Computer arithmetic)
    floating-point data type is a compromise between the flexibility of a general rational number data type and the speed of fixed-point arithmetic. It uses...
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  • language in order to support enhanced microprocessor features such as fixed-point arithmetic, multiple distinct memory banks, and basic I/O operations. The C...
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    mix engine, supported until 2011 with version 10, employed 24-bit fixed-point arithmetic for plug-in processing and 48-bit for mixing. Current HDX hardware...
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    algorithm written by Frank Liang. TeX82 also uses fixed-point arithmetic instead of floating-point, to ensure reproducibility of the results across different...
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  • than fixed-length format floating-point instructions. When high performance is not a requirement, but high precision is, variable length arithmetic can...
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  • transform or a Walsh–Hadamard transform. Both transforms are done with fixed-point arithmetic to avoid rounding errors. The output is compressed with entropy...
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    dynamic programming algorithm by scaling and rounding (i.e. using fixed-point arithmetic), but if the problem requires d {\displaystyle d} fractional digits...
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    overlapping coverage of the operating functions. The processor used fixed-point arithmetic with a two's complement format. Compared to computers that came...
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    high-speed matrix multiplications. Operating performance: 66 MIPS Uses fixed point arithmetic, different operations used different representations Polygons per...
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  • this group end with letter "F" indicating "Fiksni zarez" (en. Fixed point) arithmetic. However, this is only true for addition, subtraction and negation...
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  • Binary angular measurement (category Binary arithmetic)
    measurement system, BAMS) is a measure of angles using binary numbers and fixed-point arithmetic, in which a full turn is represented by the value 1. The unit of...
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    Rounding (category Arithmetic)
    integer or fixed-point arithmetic; when computing mathematical functions such as square roots, logarithms, and sines; or when using a floating-point representation...
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  • Q16.16 fixed-point numbers. libfixmath has no external dependencies other than stdint.h and a compiler which supports 64-bit integer arithmetic (such as...
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    available features is pure fixed-point arithmetic to avoid rounding errors which would arise with floating-point arithmetic. This feature was introduced...
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