Gustafson gives a compelling argument, especially for low precision like 8b and 16b. In 8b, operations can be implemented with table lookup with FPGAs. Unums ar

Gustafson gives a compelling argument, especially for low precision like 8b and 16b. In 8b, operations can be implemented with table lookup with FPGAs. Unums are better than IEEE but can't an application specific choice do better given that we're talking about choosing 256 numbers?