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MIT’s new heat-powered silicon chips achieve 99% accuracy in math calculations

Scientists in the US have created a tiny silicon chip that can perform mathematical ...
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MIT’s heat-powered silicon chips hit 99% accuracy in math tests

Engineers at MIT have turned one of computing’s biggest headaches, waste heat, into the main act. By sculpting “dust-sized” silicon structures that steer heat as precisely as electrical current, they ...
Nature

Numerical Computation and Mathematical Software

Nature Research Intelligence Topics Topic summaries Information and Computing Sciences Theory of Computation Numerical Computation and Mathematical Software Numerical computation and mathematical ...
Hackaday

Making Floating Point Calculations Less Cursed When Accuracy Matters

An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of both precision and accuracy.
insideHPC

John Gustafson to host BoF on Posit Arithmetic at SC17

John Gustafson from A*STAR will host a BoF on Posit arithmetic at SC17. Entitled, “Improving Numerical Computation with Practical Tools and Novel Computer Arithmetic,” this BOF will be co-hosted by ...
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ACCURATE INVERSES FOR COMPUTING EIGENVALUES OF EXTREMELY ILL-CONDITIONED MATRICES AND DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS

Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 87, No. 309 (January 2018), pp. 237-259 (23 pages) Abstract This paper is concerned with computations of a few smallest eigenvalues (in absolute value) of a large ...