Are Floating Point Operations on the Way Out?

What's wrong with floating point calculations anyway? Not much, unless you're concerned with rounding errors that can result in different answers to the same problem run on parallel machines. Then you're stuck trying to figure out whether the difference stems from rounding, from a software error or a hardware flaw. Bill Walster suggests a better alternative: interval arithmetic. [...read more...]

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