Floating Point Errors and Large Scale Worlds

Definition of floating point

Floating Point Error Demonstration

suppose that a task makes extensive use of floating point operations with 60 of the time consumed by floating point operations with a new hardware design the floatingpoint module is sped up 40672

A weather forecasting computation requires 250 billion floating-point operations. The problem is processed in a supercomputer that can perform 100 megaflops. How long will it take to do these calculations? | Numerade

Floating-Point Representation Error – Real Python