No audio available for this content. Technology has improved the scientific community’s ability to measure in many ways that our ancestors would have trouble believing. From obtaining measurements ...

While computers have the capacity to perform very large calculations very quickly, the result can sometimes be less precise than hand calculations because of the limitation of how numbers are stored ...

While it might not happen anytime soon, traditional supercomputing could be in for a sea change with wider acceptance of lower-precision calculations. Such a change translates into reduced accuracy ...