Comment on An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998)parentComments−an1sotropy4yI'd heard of posits before but hadn't been motivated to learn about them until your comment; thanks. Reminds me of CIDR for IPv4−adgjlsfhk14yIMO, 8 and 16 bit posits are way better than the float equivalents, but for 32 and 64 bits, floating point math is easier to analyze.
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I'd heard of posits before but hadn't been motivated to learn about them until your comment; thanks. Reminds me of CIDR for IPv4
IMO, 8 and 16 bit posits are way better than the float equivalents, but for 32 and 64 bits, floating point math is easier to analyze.