Beforediscussing a new approach that enables floating-point implementation inhardware with performance similar to that of fixed-point processing, it isfirst necessary to discuss the reason why ...

Unlike in integer literals, leading zeros are allowed in the numeric parts. For example, 077.010 is legal, and denotes the same number as 77.10. The leading zero on the fractional part is significant ...

The traditional view is that the floating-point number format is superior to the fixed-point number format when it comes to representing sound digitally. In fact, while it may be counter-intuitive, ...