The idea isn't novel, but presents major challenges. Tensordyne thinks it has solved them, and promises massive speed and ...

1. Introduction The conventional floating-point operation system specified in IEEE Standard 754 comprises binary-number operation systems corresponding to data representation formats such as a ...

Number System and Arithmetic are the two most basic, but extremely important, topics of Quantitative Aptitude. They make the foundation of one’s QA skills and go a long way in making one do well ...

Binary, or base two, is the number system that computer systems use, as opposed to the decimal, or base ten, system used in our day-to-day lives. Binary is generally associated with high ...

Abstractions blog Smaller Is Better: Why Finite Number Systems Pack More Punch Recent progress on the “sum product” problem recalls a celebrated mathematical result that revealed the power of ...

A wildebeest knows when it is outnumbered by a pack of hungry hyenas, thanks to an imprecise, primal brain function called the Approximate Number System, or ANS. Animals have it and human babies ...

The natives of a remote Polynesian Island invented a binary number system, similar to the one used by computers to calculate, centuries before Western mathematicians did, new research suggests ...

The twin primes conjecture is one of the most important and difficult questions in mathematics. Two mathematicians have solved a parallel version of the problem for small number systems.