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Please check some of the online papers on Posit numbers and Unum computing, especially by John Gustafson. In general, Unums can represent more numbers, with les

Please check some of the online papers on Posit numbers and Unum computing, especially by John Gustafson. In general, Unums can represent more numbers, with less rounding, and fewer exceptions than floating points. Many software and hardware vendors are starting to do interesting work with Posits.

StefanKarpinski 7y ago
Probably one of the more in depth technical discussions of the pros and cons of the various proposals that John Gustafson has made over the years: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/posits-a-new-approach-could-sink-floating-point-computation/26176 https://discourse.julialang.org/t/posits-a-new-approach-coul...