Re:Exploring the Native Use of 64-Bit Posit Arithmetic in Sc...
by pvillano on Saturday May 13, 2023 @12:31PM
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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
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Only a few, like bfloat, but common hardware doesn't support nonstandard total lengths either.
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.