IEEE floating point numbers have just three parts – a sign, an exponent, and a fraction. While a 32-bit floating point number is capable of expressing numbers between 10^-38 and 10^38, with ...

Today a company called Bounded Floating Point announced a breakthrough patent in processor design, which allows representation of real numbers accurate to the last digit "for the first time in ...

Devilish pathology: researchers have found a new problem with how floating-point calculations are done. (Courtesy: iStock/loops7) Scientists who think they have accurately modelled chaotic systems on ...

I am working on a viewshed* algorithm that does some floating point arithmetic. The algorithm sacrifices accuracy for speed and so only builds an approximate viewshed. The algorithm iteratively ...

Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) has conducted new research on the impact of floating PV and water temperature and evaporation.