I don't mean converting to floats, I mean treating the exponent and mantissa separately. Processors already do something similar for floats. For addition, (for

I don't mean converting to floats, I mean treating the exponent and mantissa separately. Processors already do something similar for floats. For addition, (for example), you de-normalize the smaller input by an amount to make the exponents line up, add and re-normalize. The steps would be pretty much exactly the same for posits, the only difference is how you calculate the difference in exponents (which just boils down to a few shifts based on the useed value).