The situation for floating point is perhaps the worst of all.

A 1906E with a special higher performance floating point unit.

In particular, most systems did not have a floating point unit.

The test stresses the floating point performance of a system.

A good deal of floating point calculation is needed too.

Among other changes, the 9300 included a floating point processor for higher performance.

The 8112 was also a high speed floating point processor.

Date and time are stored as a floating point value.

Each color channel is represented by a 32-bit, floating point number.

The floating point unit has a three level deep pipeline.

This is a project aimed at building a computer which can process one million floating point operations per second.

All functions use floating point numbers in one manner or another.

The floating point unit was also enhanced compared to the 604.

As a floating point number it had the overflow bit set.

It is also possible to compare floating point numbers using the same technique.

A special product designed for Universities who needed floating point but found the 1905 too expensive.

Due to the conversion problem fixed floating point numbers are used.

Floating point additions take some number of cycles to complete.

Floating point operations were available using a single 72-bit accumulator.

The 29050 also has much better floating point performance than previous 29k microprocessors.

The coordinate space was positive or negative floating point numbers, specifically 2.

- Another classic book on floating point and error analysis.

New engine, all processing takes place in 32-bit floating point for high precision.

Breaking this down requires some understanding of how a floating point number is stored.

She caught one of the floating points of her dress.

These examples are given in bit representation of the floating-point value.

If nothing else, Bulldozer should have very good floating-point performance.

Suppose we want to determine whether a floating-point number is negative.

During stage 1, the program might need loads of floating-point units, and nothing else.

In Python 3, the result of is always a floating-point value.

However, floating-point numbers have only a certain amount of mathematical precision.

Over the years, a variety of floating-point representations have been used in computers.

To check further necessary conditions the program performs a lot of floating-point calculation.

The processor received much attention in the scientific community due to its outstanding floating-point performance.

A floating-point operation is a basic computer arithmetical task, like addition.

A few of these computers also have a decimal floating-point format.

How could this be used to assess the accuracy of a floating-point calculation?

Computer performance can also be measured in floating-point operations per second, or flops.

The act of reaching an invalid result is called a floating-point exception.

The R5000 could simultaneously issue an integer and a floating-point instruction.

After all the checks they ran, a small error slipped through in their floating-point unit.

Thus, the notion of an irrational number is meaningless to even the most powerful floating-point computer.

A simple method to add floating-point numbers is to first represent them with the same exponent.

The floating-point form is used to represent numbers with a fractional component.

A floating-point co-processor was also available, taking up a separate slot.

If the number can be represented exactly in the floating-point format then the conversion is exact.

Other characters may be used to indicate floating-point numbers or specify precision.

During its 23 years, it was the most widely used format for floating-point computation.

How this worked was system-dependent, meaning that floating-point programs were not portable.

Expectations from mathematics may not be realised in the field of floating-point computation.