An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of both precision and accuracy.

Integer arithmetic is usually supposed to be good for some things but not for others – which need floating point arithmetic. In fact, for small machines, integer arithmetic might be all you need. In ...

Routines for the PIC16/17 families are provided in a modified IEEE 754 32-bit format together with versions in 24-bit reduced format. Although fixed point arithmetic can usually be employed in many ...