The patent claimed a four - step process of doing calculations with
floating point numbers.
I can see that for any particular computer program, increasing the precision of
floating point numbers (e.g. going from 64 to 128, or 128 to 256 bits) would give different results for the same input, but the results would converge with increasing precision.
Doing so is both unnecessary and wasteful as it converts N
floating point numbers into 2N such when it only needs to produce N. (Though programmers are so sloppy nowadays that it's become old - fashioned to pay attention to such niceties.
Term Trend:
Its a floating point number between 0 and 2.
In the case at hand the difference made by removing the AGW trend or the SAW oscillation first is in the least significant bit of a double precision
floating point number, i.e. none at all.
The format string %.1 f means
floating point number rounded to one decimal place.
Not exact matches
Ordinary AI processing, Farhadi explains, involves algorithms that perform billions of operations between
floating -
point numbers.
Types specify the format of data, such as alphanumeric characters,
floating -
point numbers or more complex data structures, such as Web pages and database queries.
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Floating -
point numbers.
The ECU will probably work with integer
numbers (computes faster) but convert the final output of it's calculations for OBD into «
floating point» or «real» form (
numbers that can use decimal
points).
At a time when the ebook adoption growth rate was high and fast, price
points were less important than those sheer
numbers that made so many boats
float.
The Java code is written inside classes, and every data item is an object, except for the primitive data types, (i.e.,
floating -
point numbers, integers, boolean values, and characters) which are not objects for performance reasons.
The interest rates for bonds with
floating coupon rates are based on a benchmark, such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) or the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), adding a certain
number of basis
points (bps) to the benchmark.
Coins increase the
number of
points in the game and they can also give Mario extra lives (100 coins give 1 extra life), and they can be found
floating above the platforms of each level or under the coin boxes or certain blocks (in that case, Mario has to jump beneath the block to get the coins).
Just as computer
floating point is an approximation, limited by the
number of bits used to represent the real world analog value.
He explained that «the conversion of
floating -
point numbers has applications across fields as diverse as science, math, communications, security, graphics, and games.»
The patent claims «a method for processing
floating -
point numbers.»
The TV «
floats» on a sleek stand that lets the homeowners watch from any
number of vantage
points but never interrupts the views of downtown Boston.