Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The precision of a double in Java is 10-324 decimal places, although true mathematical precision ...

With this week’s release of AMD’s Radeon VII, we’ve taken a look at performance for both gaming, and professional workloads. While the card traded blows with NVIDIA’s comparable GeForce RTX 2080, ...

Using two computer words instead of one to hold a number used for calculations, thus allowing twice as large a number for more arithmetic precision. Contrast with single precision. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

For the past year, enthusiasts have been chomping at the bit waiting for the next generation of graphics cards to arrive. The 28nm node has persisted for far longer than any previous generation, and ...

Floating-point arithmetic is used extensively in many applications across multiple market segments. These applications often require a large number of calculations and are prevalent in financial ...