Re:Float Toy
by olliej on Saturday August 20, 2022 @07:11PM
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Boo, no fp80!
Honestly I think having fp80 would be super interesting as it was the first end-user available hardware implementation of ieee definition of floating point, and also as a by product shows some design "mistakes" that were ironed out by the time fp32/64 were formalized.
Honestly I think having fp80 would be super interesting as it was the first end-user available hardware implementation of ieee definition of floating point, and also as a by product shows some design "mistakes" that were ironed out by the time fp32/64 were formalized.