Hardware cost evaluation of the posit number system

Re:Hardware cost evaluation of the posit number system by mooman219 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @05:34PM (#20396875)

Facebook apparently achieved a performance gain with their designs https://code.fb.com/ai-research/floating-point-math/

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Re:Hardware cost evaluation of the posit number system by ori_b on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @11:28PM (#20398947)

For a posit based float with 127 unique unisgned values. If you can tolerate that little precision, you can implement arithmetic as a smallish lookup table.

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Re:Hardware cost evaluation of the posit number system by AstralStorm on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @12:59PM (#20403846)

Tensor cores seem like a fit...

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