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Re:IEEE FP8 Formats for Machine Learning (Draft) [pdf] by avianes on Friday May 31, 2024 @04:11PM (#40539685)
Also, note that:

- There is only one Zero (encoded as 0x00), no negative-zero

- There is only one NaN (encoded as 0x80)

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Re:IEEE FP8 Formats for Machine Learning (Draft) [pdf] by hi-v-rocknroll on Friday May 31, 2024 @04:23PM (#40539805)
-0, qNANs, and sNANs of the world unite to raise an exception to this travesty!
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