The Proms David Pickard as the next Director of The Proms. The 2006 season (the 112th) marked the 250th birthday celebrations of Mozart and the centenary of Shostakovich's birth. New initiatives included four Saturday matinee concerts at the Cadogan Hall and the chance for audience members to get involved with "The Voice", a collaborative piece performed in two Proms on 29 July. On 3 September 2006, a concert was cancelled due to a fire. The season saw the launch of a venture called the Proms Family Orchestra in which children and their extended families can make music with BBC musicians. The 2007
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