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A comment on Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tricks (2019).

Re:Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tr... by antiquark on Thursday June 19, 2025 @11:13AM (#44319432)
This seems to be related to the "type III unum":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)#Posit_(Ty...

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Re:Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tr... by andrepd on Thursday June 19, 2025 @11:26AM (#44319574)
Posit is the name of the 3rd in a series of John Gustafson's proposals of an alternative to ieee floats.
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