Bummer. The posit number system (http://www.johngustafson.net/pdfs/BeatingFloatingPoint.pdf http://www.johngustafson.net/pdfs/BeatingFloatingPoint.pdf) is super

Bummer. The posit number system (http://www.johngustafson.net/pdfs/BeatingFloatingPoint.pdf http://www.johngustafson.net/pdfs/BeatingFloatingPoint.pdf) is super-cool, and its inventors often speak of its potential performance advantages. On the other hand, their claims did seems a little "too good to be true" - variable-width fields require mux gates, and somebody needs to pay for those.