Interesting, although I believe most neural nets nowadays have moved to use linear (relu) activation, which again removes the need for exponent and would work r

Interesting, although I believe most neural nets nowadays have moved to use linear (relu) activation, which again removes the need for exponent and would work really well with fixed point. Here's a reference using 16-bit fixed point neural nets http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7011421/?part=1 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7011421/?part=1