floating arithmetic

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• Arithmetic logic unit — schematic symbol Cascadable 8 …   Wikipedia

• Arithmetic underflow — (or floating point underflow , floating underflow , underflow ) is a condition that can occur when the result of a floating point operation would be smaller in magnitude (closer to zero, either positive or negative) than the smallest quantity… …   Wikipedia

• floating-point — [flōt′iŋ point΄] adj. designating or of a system of arithmetic, used esp. in computer science, having its numbers expressed in scientific notation (Ex.: 0.0003 becomes 3 × 10 4) * * * float·ing point (flōʹtĭng point ) adj. Of, relating to, or… …   Universalium

• floating-point — [flōt′iŋ point΄] adj. designating or of a system of arithmetic, used esp. in computer science, having its numbers expressed in scientific notation (Ex.: 0.0003 becomes 3 × 10 4) …   English World dictionary

• Floating 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 …   Wikipedia

• Floating-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,… …   Wikipedia

• Floating 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… …   Wikipedia

• Arithmetic shift — In computer programming, an arithmetic shift is a shift operator, sometimes known as a signed shift (though it is not restricted to signed operands). For binary numbers it is a bitwise operation that shifts all of the bits of its operand; every… …   Wikipedia

• Arithmetic precision — The precision of a value describes the number of digits that are used to express that value. In a scientific setting this would be the total number of digits (sometimes called the significant figures or significant digits) or, less commonly, the… …   Wikipedia

• Arithmetic overflow — The term arithmetic overflow or simply overflow has the following meanings. In a computer, the condition that occurs when a calculation produces a result that is greater in magnitude than that which a given register or storage location can store… …   Wikipedia

• Arithmetic complexity of the discrete Fourier transform — See Fast Fourier transform#Bounds on complexity and operation counts for a general summary of this issue.Bounds on the multiplicative complexity of FFTIn his PhD thesis in 1987 [1] , Michael Heidman focus on the arithmetic theory of complexity… …   Wikipedia