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Re:Exploring the Native Use of 64-Bit Posit Arithmetic in Sc... by Dylan16807 on Friday May 12, 2023 @08:03PM (#35924029)
That interactive diagram is nice but I don't think it should say floats only have a length. Floats as a general data format let you customize the size of the exponent field too.

As far as explaining posits, the key point I'd say to people is that a posit is almost the same as a float, but it stores the exponent in a different (variable-length) way.

Re:Exploring the Native Use of 64-Bit Posit Arithmetic in Sc... by pvillano on Saturday May 13, 2023 @12:31PM (#35929975)
Does "common" hardware support nonstandard exponent lengths for floats?
Re:Exploring the Native Use of 64-Bit Posit Arithmetic in Sc... by Dylan16807 on Saturday May 13, 2023 @03:20PM (#35931756)
Only a few, like bfloat, but common hardware doesn't support nonstandard total lengths either.