Low Precision Floating-Point Formats: The Wild West of Computer Arithmetic

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The November 2019 edition of SIAM News contains an article by Research Associate Srikara Pranesh about the growing importance of low precision floating-point arithmetic. Sri describes the opportunities provided by recent hardware and explains how new algorithms are being derived to exploit low precision arithmetic.  To read the article click the image below.

Also see Sri’s recent blog post Simulating Low Precision Floating-Point Arithmetics.

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