Floating-point arithmetic is necessary to meet precision and performance requirements for an increasing number of applications. Today, most 32-bit embedded processors that offer this functionality are ...

This article explains the basics of floating-point arithmetic, how floating-point units (FPUs) work, and how to use FPGAs for easy, low-cost floating-point processing. Inside microprocessors, numbers ...

Unfortunately, AVRs don’t have floating point arithmetic so [Alan] used fixed point arithmetic – a system similar to balancing your checkbook in cents rather than dollars.

[Editor's note: For an intro to floating-point math, see Tutorial: Floating-point arithmetic on FPGAs. For an intro to fixed-point math, see Fixed-Point DSP and Algorithm Implementation.] The ...

"Dr. Gustafson has recently finished writing a book, The End of Error: Unum Computing, that presents a new approach to computer arithmetic: the unum. The universal number, or unum format, encompasses ...

Other than proving that floating point arithmetic is cursed, this also raises the question of why this works. Simplified numerator and denominator with floating point delta.

A similar conclusionwas reached recently by Microsoft and Meta: Floating-point arithmetic is just much less efficient than integer arithmetic.

However, in floating point arithmetic, the "radix point" is said to float because its location is determined by the power of 10 to which the numeric value is raised. The power is called the ...

Floating-point arithmetic is a cornerstone of modern computational science, providing an efficient means to approximate real numbers within a finite precision framework.