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Integer math in JavaScript | James Darpinian
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Floating Point Demystified, Part 1
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| | Author's note: this article used to be called "What Every ComputerProgrammer Should Know About Floating Point, part 1". Some peoplenoted that this was perh...
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RISC-V Assembler: Multiply Divide - Project F
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| | Integer multiply and divide instructions form the optional M extension. Making multiplication and division optional keeps the base instruction set simple and reduces the size of the smallest RISC-V core. This post includes a brief overview of common RISC-V extensions.
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Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be? | orlp.net
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| | [AI summary] A deep dive into the complexities and pitfalls of comparing different numeric types (integers and floating-point) across various programming languages and the CPU architecture
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Floating Point Error in the Small
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| [AI summary] The blog post discusses a floating-point error example where the expression sqrt(x^2) leads to significant inaccuracies due to numerical overflow and underflow, highlighting how even accurate operations can compose into an inaccurate result.