that's the general idea. There is an additional tradeoff - error analysis in non-extreme (aka subnormal) cases is easier for IEEE than posits. The quire stuff

that's the general idea. There is an additional tradeoff - error analysis in non-extreme (aka subnormal) cases is easier for IEEE than posits. The quire stuff has been thrown in there, too, because while we're boiling the ocean, we might as well encourage people to "do the right thing". think of the quire as a really large accumulator cache for things like matrix vector multiplication or tensor outer products, which I hear, AI uses a lot.