A FLOP is a single floating‑point operation, meaning one arithmetic calculation (add, subtract, multiply, or divide) on ...

Abstract: This letter presents novel approximate floating-point arithmetic units that leverage hardware-efficient rounding schemes to enhance computational accuracy while significantly improving ...

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At the lowest point of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln characterized the core factor between victory and defeat as finding a general who understood the “awful arithmetic” of war. War is a contest of ...

American high-school seniors’ scores on major math and reading tests fell to their lowest levels on record, according to results released Tuesday by the U.S. Education Department. Twelfth-graders’ ...

It has taken nearly two decades and an immense amount of work by millions of people for high performance computing to go mainstream with GenAI. And now, we live in a world where AI servers crammed ...

When presenting expressions, we saw examples of common arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Here we will present two additional operations which are closely ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Linux provides quite a few commands that let you do math on the command line. Which is best depends on the kind of math that you’re doing and the precision that you’re expecting. This post covers five ...

Have you heard of the “7-point rule”? It’s a fashion trick that helps address those times we’ve all experienced, when you look at your outfit and think, Hmm, something is missing. You don’t know what ...

One of the great dividing lines in the bond market is between fixed-rate and floating-rate debt. This difference has become especially stark since 2022, as the rise in short-term interest rates ...