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IEEE 754 is one of the rare successes of computer engineering and standardization. Turns out it's just hard to implement continuous math on physical hardware.
by AceJohnny2 8y ago
IEEE 754 is one of the rare successes of computer engineering and standardization.
Turns out it's just hard to implement continuous math on physical hardware.
I'm curious (and a bit skeptical) about any efforts that think they can do better.
- triska 8y agoJohn Gustafson has developed several promising alternatives, such as unums, posits and valids: https://posithub.org/about https://posithub.org/about I also recommend his book, The End of Error - Unum Computing: https://www.crcpress.com/The-End-of-Error-Unum-Computing/Gustafson/p/book/9781482239867 https://www.crcpress.com/The-End-of-Error-Unum-Computing/Gus... A transcript of a debate with William Kahan is here: http://www.johngustafson.net/pdfs/DebateTranscription.pdf http://www.johngustafson.net/pdfs/DebateTranscription.pdf