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Re:9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0 by vanderZwan on Sunday January 06, 2019 @06:07PM (#18841333)
Those are type one unums, not posits. What you are saying about variable length encoding may be true, but it does not actually apply to the current comparison. Type 2 unums are also fixed length, but have other issues.
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Re:9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0 by tntn on Sunday January 06, 2019 @06:47PM (#18841543)
'nestorD was discussing the effects and overheads of "dropping the fixed length constraint" in the comment you replied to.
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Re:9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0 by vanderZwan on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:47AM (#18843983)
Oh darn, you're right. My bad!

In my defense, the comment he replied to got downvoted and I thought it was nestorD, so I was "primed" to misinterpret his comment as criticizing unums in general.

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