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No installation required: how WebAssembly is changing scientific computing

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Nature 627, 455-456 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00725-1

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  • Correction 14 March 2024: This Technology feature erroneously stated that data are never transferred to an external server with WebAssembly. In fact, they can be; it is just not required. Also, it wrongly stated that WebAssembly is limited to 32-bit numbers. It can handle 64-bit numbers, but is limited to 32-bit memory addresses.

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