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A comment on Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tricks (2019).
It is hard to understand at first but after playing with this a bit it will make sense. As with everything, there are trade offs compared to IEEE floats, but having more precision when numbers are close to 1 is pretty nice.
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It is hard to understand at first but after playing with this a bit it will make sense. As with everything, there are trade offs compared to IEEE floats, but having more precision when numbers are close to 1 is pretty nice.