The floating point arithmetic format that occupies 128 bits of storage is known asbinary128orquadruple precision. This blog post describes an implementation of quadruple precision programmed entirely in the MATLAB language....read more >>

The floating point arithmetic format that requires only 16 bits of storage is becoming increasingly popular. Also known ashalf precisionorbinary16, the format is useful when memory is a scarce resource....read more >>

(Please replace the erroneous posting from yesterday, Nov. 28, with this corrected version.)...read more >>

Here is a very short course in Linear Algebra. The Singular Value Decomposition provides a natural basis for Gil Strang's Four Fundamental Subspaces....read more >>