Under OS/390, floating-point representation (unlike scientific notation) uses a base of 16 rather than base 10. IBM mainframe systems all use the same floating-point representation, which is made up ...

Another common approach, although it is usually adds more circuit hardware, is to use a “block” floating-point number representation. In this case the intermediate results are scaled together only if ...

Floating point also enables calculating a wide range of numbers very quickly. Although floating point dates back thousands of years, the concept is the same today. In a computer, the same quantity ...

If that’s not your way you might be out of luck. If you have trouble internalizing floating point number representations, the Internet is your friend. [Fabian Sanglard] (author of Game Engine ...