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.

Other than proving that floating point arithmetic is cursed, this also raises the question of why this works. Simplified numerator and denominator with floating point delta.

Future work would explore a range of non-symbolic arithmetic operations, including contrasting subtraction and unknown-addend operations, to gain further insights into the interactions between ANS ...

This paper describes details of floating-point square root calculation algorithms using Taylor-series expansion and mantissa region division in the viewpoint of the efficient dedicated hardware design ...

Floating-point arithmetic is a kind of scientific notation, which condenses the number of digits needed to represent a number. This trick is pulled off by an arithmetic expression first codified by ...