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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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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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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IEEE 754 (redirect from IEEE Floating Point Standard)
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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Minifloat Block floating-point scaling Modulo operation μ-law algorithm A-law algorithm "What's the Difference Between Fixed-Point, Floating-Point, and Numerical...
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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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In computing, quadruple precision (or quad precision) is a binary floating-point–based computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) with precision...
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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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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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The bfloat16 (brain floating point) floating-point format is a computer number format occupying 16 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic...
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Hexadecimal floating point (now called HFP by IBM) is a format for encoding floating-point numbers first introduced on the IBM System/360 computers, and...
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In computing, octuple precision is a binary floating-point-based computer number format that occupies 32 bytes (256 bits) in computer memory. This 256-bit...
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NaN (section Floating point)
a floating-point number) which is undefined as a number, such as the result of 0/0. Systematic use of NaNs was introduced by the IEEE 754 floating-point...
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(sometimes 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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a decimal floating-point computer number format that occupies 8 bytes (64 bits) in computer memory. Decimal64 is a decimal floating-point format, formally...
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TensorFloat-32 (category Floating point types)
TensorFloat-32 (TF32) is a numeric floating point format designed for Tensor Core running on certain Nvidia GPUs. The binary format is: 1 sign bit 8 exponent...
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In computing, decimal128 is a decimal floating-point number format that occupies 128 bits in memory. Formally introduced in IEEE 754-2008, it is intended...
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In computing, decimal32 is a decimal floating-point computer numbering format that occupies 4 bytes (32 bits) in computer memory. Like the binary16 and...
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Extended precision (redirect from 80-bit floating point format)
Extended precision refers to floating-point number formats that provide greater precision than the basic floating-point formats. Extended-precision formats...
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In C and related programming languages, long double refers to a floating-point data type that is often more precise than double precision though the language...
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others have libraries available for arbitrary-precision integer and floating-point math. Rather than storing values as a fixed number of bits related to...
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Minifloat (redirect from 8-bit floating point)
In computing, minifloats are floating-point values represented with very few bits. This reduced precision makes them ill-suited for general-purpose numerical...
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The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the 520 Bridge and officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, is a floating bridge that carries...
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number in a floating-point representation which is within the balanced range supported by a given floating-point format: it is a floating point number that...
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maps back to 0000000110101 (+53 in decimal). This can be seen as a floating-point number with 4 bits of mantissa m (equivalent to a 5-bit precision),...
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scheme that supports a special kind of fixed-point arithmetic that is commonly referred to as block floating point arithmetic. The CKKS scheme includes an...
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maximum specified clock speed of 33 MHz, and has hardware support for block-floating point FFT. It uses 5 V TTL levels and consumes approximately 0.4 W. In...
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texture buffer built-in) hardware z-buffer (16-bit) (actually a block floating point with multiple (4) range w-buffer) object-based full-scene anti-aliasing...
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Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, and commonly called the SR 520 Bridge or 520 Bridge, was a floating bridge...
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Ukiyo-e (redirect from Pictures of the Floating World)
fauna; and erotica. The term ukiyo-e (浮世絵) translates as "picture[s] of the floating world". In 1603, the city of Edo (Tokyo) became the seat of the ruling...
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