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16-bit math look-up tables – the unexpected power of scaled-integer math
Floating-point math puts a big overhead on a computer that doesn't have a floating-point coprocessor; but we really do need floating-point for all but the simplest operations— or do we?? Can we really do things like trig, log, and square-root functions without floating point?
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Math & AlgorithmsSoftware Engineering2017
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Mar 31, 2017 | 16-bit math look-up tables – the unexpected power of scaled-integer math by mirceasoaica | 114 | 51 |
