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9 years ago, I shared this as an April Fools joke here on HN. It seems that life is imitating art. https://github.com/sdd/ieee754-rrp https://github.com/sdd/i
by sc0ttyd 5mo ago
9 years ago, I shared this as an April Fools joke here on HN.
It seems that life is imitating art.
https://github.com/sdd/ieee754-rrp https://github.com/sdd/ieee754-rrp
- mysterydip 5mo agoI especially like your HQQ precision
- sc0ttyd 5mo agoI think it is only a matter of time before HQQ / 1FP takes over. It's the logical conclusion. I hope to be using my 96-blade razor by then too
- phendrenad2 5mo agohttps://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036/ https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-...
- Dylan16807 5mo ago> 9 years ago, I shared this as an April Fools joke here on HN. That's fun. > It seems that life is imitating art. You didn't even beat wikipedia to the punch. They've had a nice page about minifloats using 6-8 bit sizes as examples for about 20 years. The 4 bit section is newer, but it actually follows IEEE rules. Your joke formats forgot there's an implied 1 bit in the fraction. And how exponents work.
- nomel 5mo agoLowest I've used is 8 bit floats for time delays, in embedded devices.
- the__alchemist 5mo agoInteresting! I have been using integers or f32 for that. What was the use case specifically? Did you write a software float for it? I remember writing a `f16` type for an IC that used that was a pain!
- nomel 5mo agoTight memory constraint. I was putting configuration somewhere it shouldn't have been, but it meant we didn't need to buy an extra chip. Yes, purely software.
- lifthrasiir 5mo agoAnother attempt includes Tom 7's binary3 format [1]. [1] https://tom7.org/nand/ https://tom7.org/nand/