An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of both precision and accuracy.

Today a company called Bounded Floating Point announced a “breakthrough patent in processor design, which allows representation of real numbers accurate to the last digit for the first time in ...

These include under- and overflow, but also specific floating point inputs. Unlike in scientific calculations where even minor inaccuracies tend to propagate and cause much larger errors down the ...

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