There was a time when you hated to use floating point because it was so expensive in either dollars or CPU time, but these days even a solder controller can do relatively fast math with floats.

If you’d had asked us if converting integer division to floating point might make a program run faster, we’d have bet the answer was no, but we’d have been wrong.

Floating point also enables calculating a wide range of numbers very quickly. Although floating point dates back thousands of years, the concept is the same today.

Before becoming adopted as a catch-phrase on TikTok, the term ‘flop’ was a short-hand for floating point operations per second. Floating point numbers are commonly known as “real” numbers ...

National 5 Data representation Floating point representation Processors handle binary numbers while humans use denary. Binary to denary conversion aids understanding of data representation. ASCII ...