In the last post, we looked at how integral numbers are represented in binary in computer memory. In this post we’re going to look at the representation of floating point numbers. These are numbers ...

As a Java developer with 8+ years of experience, I thought I had seen most of the language’s quirks. But recently, while exploring Java 17, I came across JEP 306—and it made me realize why I never ran ...

A 128-bit floating-point arithmetic for Java Quadruple is a Java class for quadruple-precision floating-point arithmetic (actually, a little more precise than the standard IEEE-754 quadruple). An ...

K-Java seems to wrongly represent (negative) floating point numbers that are close to zero, it produces "-0e+00.0" instead of just "-0.0". (Similarly infinity values are incorrectly represented, e.g., ...