The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Parents know they ...

Floating-point arithmetic can be expensive if you're using an integer-only processor. But floating-point values can be manipulated as integers, asa less expensive alternative. One advantage of using a ...

Sandisk stock price jumped by over 27% on Tuesday, reaching its all-time high, and continuing the bull trend that started in April, when it bottomed at $28.80. It has soared by over 43% this year, ...

Lawrence County, Tennessee, where its three high schools recently joined a college access effort that is closing the rural-nonrural education gap. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report The ...

Why is my floating point math so inaccurate? If you lurk on embedded C forums for much time at all you will run into a question like this: “Why is my floating point math so inaccurate? I do a few ...

In the final two portions of Ben Zauzmer's eighth annual Oscar predictions, he arrives at the categories that draw less attention and are harder to predict. By Ben Zauzmer Ben Zauzmer is a ...

The College Board released its 2012 SAT college-entrance test results this week, and here are some highlights: 1. Continuing an uninterrupted trend that dates back to at least 1972, high school boys ...

American fourth and eighth graders took a small step forward in math achievement but stayed relatively stagnant in reading scores between 2009 and 2011, according to the latest national assessment of ...

So far this year, Karen Read’s fifth grade math students at Shadow Butte Elementary have earned more than half a million Apangea math points — 622,243 to be exact. They have also solved almost 20,000 ...

Scottsdale, Arizona – Imagine Learning’s Imaging Math program announced that Mississippi math students raised more than $5,000 for flood relief efforts in Jackson. “Students who use Imagine Learning’s ...

Recently Colin Walls had an article on this site about floating point math. Once it was common for embedded engineers to scoff at floats; many have told me they have no place in this space. That’s ...