Rounding errors can vary in size depending on the accuracy of the equipment used to measure the value. Events can be measured to a different degree of accuracy, depending on their importance. For ...

A precision error buried deep in Balancer’s swap logic spiraled into a multi-chain crisis — exposing how one tiny rounding misstep can ripple across DeFi’s most ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...

As the Summer Olympics draw near, the world will shift its focus to photo finishes and races determined by mere fractions of a second. Obtaining such split-second measurements relies on faultlessly ...

Decentralized finance protocol Bunni suffered an $8.4 million exploit on September 2, after a sophisticated attacker leveraged a flash loan to manipulate liquidity pools on both Ethereum and Unichain.