The term floating point is derived from the fact that there is no fixed number of digits before and after the decimal point; namely, the decimal point can float. There are also representations in ...

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, ...

Last month, Floating Points (aka UK producer Sam Shepherd) performed Promises-- his 2021 collaborative album with the London Symphony Orchestra and the late Pharoah Sanders -- live for the first time ...

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.

Back in March, the electronic producer Sam Shepherd, who releases music as Floating Points, put out a new track called "Vocoder," which he followed up a couple weeks later with "Grammar." Now, a few ...

On February 25, 1991, during the eve of the of an Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia, a Scud missile fired from Iraqi positions hit a US Army barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. A defense was available – ...