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Can't tell if I'm looking at eccentric humour mixed into a legitimate concept, an elaborate prank, or a high-brow version of the Time Cube. What's k? What's -n
by brazzy 6y ago
Can't tell if I'm looking at eccentric humour mixed into a legitimate concept, an elaborate prank, or a high-brow version of the Time Cube.
What's k? What's -npat/2?? "es is a parameter of the representation", ok, but what is it?
- david-gpu 6y agoPosits are a real alternative to floating point numbers [0] proposed by John Gustafson, the discoverer of Gustafson's law [1]. My very limited understanding is that at the sort of bitwidths you care about they are not amenable to efficient hardware implementation, unlike IEEE-754 style floats, which is part of the reason why you don't see them implemented widely. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gustafson_(scientist) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gustafson_(scientist) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s_law
- exmadscientist 6y agoGiven that the article's description of IEEE-754 isn't even correct, I'm going to go with "high-brow Time Cube". :(
- phkahler 6y agoEccentric humor mixed with legit concept.