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“Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.” - Gerald Jay Sussman Is there any IEEE standards committee working on FP alternative for e
by teleforce 1y ago
“Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.” - Gerald Jay Sussman
Is there any IEEE standards committee working on FP alternative for examples Unum and Posit [1],[2].
[1] Unum & Posit:
https://posithub.org/about https://posithub.org/about
[2] The End of Error:
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-end-of/9781482239867/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-end-of/978148223986...
- Q6T46nT668w6i3m 1y agoIs this sarcasm? If not, the proposed posit standard, IEEE P3109.
- kvemkon 1y agoI'm wondering, why there are still no announcements for hardware support of such approaches in CPUs.
- neepi 1y agoHP had proper deterministic decimal arithmetic since the 1970s.
- teleforce 1y agoAny link to that?
- vanderZwan 1y agoGustavson's last presentation starts with him holding an actual piece of hardware supporting posits, fwiw. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vzVlQhaAZtQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vzVlQhaAZtQ
- kvemkon 1y agoWow, great! Thanks for pointing this out. Just found an announcement: Calligo secures funds to scale POSIT-based chip development (07.04.2025) https://www.verdict.co.uk/calligo-secures-funds/ https://www.verdict.co.uk/calligo-secures-funds/