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fixed-point
- Aug 12, 2026 Catamorphisms and Anamorphisms over Recursive Functors How a recursive datatype becomes the least fixed point of a functor, why its fold is unique, and what an unfold adds that a fold cannot express. programming languages
- Dec 4, 2025 Packed and Zoned Decimal: Sign Nibbles and Decimal Arithmetic How decimal numbers are laid out two digits to a byte with the sign folded into the last nibble, and why the format permits decimal addition without a binary round trip. computing history
- Apr 8, 2025 Requantization Inside the Kernel: From Int32 Accumulator to Int8 Output How a convolution kernel turns a 32-bit integer accumulator into the next layer's 8-bit input, why the multiplier is a fixed-point pair, and where saturation and rounding diverge from the reference. inference systems
- Dec 10, 2024 Triangle Setup: Subpixel Snapping and the Bounding Box What a rasterizer computes before it touches a single pixel, how vertex coordinates are quantized to a fixed-point grid, and why the bounding box is the cheapest large win in the pipeline. computer graphics