John Gustafson has developed several promising alternatives, such as unums, posits and valids: https://posithub.org/about https://posithub.org/about I also re

John 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