The Proms at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport suggested "that the Proms was one of several big cultural events that many people did not feel comfortable attending" and advocated an increase in multicultural works and an effort to broaden the audience. Her comments received wide criticism in the musical world and media as being a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the Proms, with Gordon Brown even distancing himself from her remarks. In the 2009 season, which ran from 17 July to 12 September 2009, the total number of concerts reached 100 for the first time. The principal anniversary composers
Unit in the last place Unit in the last place In computer science and numerical analysis, unit in the last place or unit of least precision (ULP) is the spacing between floating-point numbers, i.e., the value the least significant digit represents if it is 1. It is used as a measure of accuracy in numeric calculations. In radix "b", if "x" has exponent "E", then ULP("x") = machine epsilon · "b", but alternative definitions exist in the numerics and computing literature for "ULP", "exponent" and "machine epsilon", and they may give different equalities. Another definition, suggested by John Harrison, is slightly different: ULP("x") is the