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Hm, they do indeed use 2's-complement... sort of. In case of a negative posit, they don't apply 2's-complement to the mantissa or anything like that, but rathe
by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Hm, they do indeed use 2's-complement... sort of. In case of a negative posit, they don't apply 2's-complement to the mantissa or anything like that, but rather to the entire posit without regard to the meaning of the bits. That's... kind of surprising, huh! Although it's not the first number format to do that. But it is a sort of 2's-complement, yes...
- loicd 4y agoThe idea is that you can reuse instructions for signed integer comparisons. This is explicitely mentioned in the standard, section 5.3: https://posithub.org/docs/posit_standard-2.pdf https://posithub.org/docs/posit_standard-2.pdf
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