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Gustafnot
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Gustafnot
7y ago
Reproducibility is an orthogonal issue to Posits vs IEEE754. Most developers prefer speed over reproducibility, and are encouraged to use denormal-to-zeros, fast-math optimizations, fused MAC, approximated square root function and whatever
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Gustafnot
7y ago
He will keep failing to replace IEEE floating point as long as he insists on making NEGATIVE infinity the same as POSITIVE infinity. Also, IEEE 754 floating point standard guarantees the results of addition, subtraction, multiplication, div