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		antiquark 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and o... This seems to be related to the "type III unum": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)#Posit_(Ty...

andrepd 7 months ago [–]

Posit is the name of the 3rd in a series of John Gustafson's proposals of an alternative to ieee floats.

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