In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses a recent presentation by John Gustafson on Next Generation Computer Arithmetic. “A new data type called a “posit” is designed for direct drop-in ...

"Dr. Gustafson has recently finished writing a book, The End of Error: Unum Computing, that presents a new approach to computer arithmetic: the unum. The universal number, or unum format, encompasses ...

Researchers have developed a survey to examine how software developers, engineers, scientists, and managers understand floating-point arithmetic.

Sigal, a second-grade girl in Israel, was observed for several months while practicing arithmetic with a structured and controlled computer-assisted instruction (CAI) system. Sigal was average in ...

Arithmetic Circuits in Computer Architecture Arithmetic circuits are checking the dependency of output and input at any instant.