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Floating-Point Computation

Lecturer: Professor A. Mycroft

No. of lectures: 4

This course is useful for the Part II courses Advanced Graphics and Digital Signal Processing.

Aims

This course has two aims: firstly to provide an introduction to (IEEE) floating-point data representation and arithmetic; and secondly to show, mainly by fun examples backed up by simple analysis, how naïve implementations of obvious mathematics can go badly wrong.

Lectures

Objectives

At the end of the course students should

Recommended reading

None.



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