floating point computation
1Floating point — In computing, floating point describes a method of representing real numbers in a way that can support a wide range of values. Numbers are, in general, represented approximately to a fixed number of significant digits and scaled using an exponent …
2Floating point unit — A floating point unit (FPU) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating point numbers. Typical operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square root. Some systems (particularly… …
3Floating-point unit — An Intel 80287 A floating point unit (FPU, colloquially a math coprocessor) is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating point numbers. Typical operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication,… …
4Quadruple-precision floating-point format — In computing, quadruple precision (also commonly shortened to quad precision) is a binary floating point computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) in computer memory. In IEEE 754 2008 the 128 bit base 2 format is officially… …
5Technical Floating Point — The Technical Floating Point (TFP) model was a new set of computer processor instructions in microcode, designed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). It was used to replace the x87 floating point capabilities in the original Intel IA 32… …
6Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation — infobox software name = PETSc latest release version = 2.3.3 latest release date = 23 May 2007 operating system = Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows license = own compatible with [GNU General Public Licenc [e|GPL (version 2)] language = C (main… …
7fixed-point — ˈ ̷ ̷ ¦ ̷ ̷ adjective : involving or being a mathematical notation (as in a decimal system) in which the point separating whole numbers and fractions is fixed compare floating point herein * * * fixed point «FIHKST POYNT», adjective. of or… …
8Cell (microprocessor) — Cell is a microprocessor architecture jointly developed by Sony Computer Entertainment, Toshiba, and IBM, an alliance known as STI . The architectural design and first implementation were carried out at the STI Design Center in Austin, Texas over …
9William Kahan — Infobox Scientist name = William Morton Kahan image width = caption = birth date = birth date and age|1933|6|5 birth place = flagicon|CAN Toronto, Ontario death date = death place = residence = citizenship = nationality = Canadian ethnicity =… …
10ARM architecture — This article is about a computer processor architecture. For other uses, see ARM (disambiguation). Logo ARM Designer ARM Holdings Bits …
