[Editor's note: For an intro to fixed-point math, see Fixed-Point DSP and Algorithm Implementation. For a comparison of fixed- and floating-point hardware, see Fixed vs. floating point: a surprisingly ...

Beforediscussing a new approach that enables floating-point implementation inhardware with performance similar to that of fixed-point processing, it isfirst necessary to discuss the reason why ...

Abstract: Floating-point division is an important operation in scientific computing and multimedia applications. This paper presents and compares two division algorithms for an x86 microprocessor, ...

It is usually impossible to type in floating-point binary data directly from a console, but many programs write floating-point binary data. Use caution if you are using the RBw.d informat to read ...