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Re:Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tr... by immibis on Thursday June 19, 2025 @05:49PM (#44322830)
So do floats if you don't care about NaN
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Re:Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tr... by tomsmeding on Thursday June 19, 2025 @07:09PM (#44323355)
They do not; if you sort as unsigned ints then negative floats sort above positive ones, and if you sort as signed ints then the negative range is reversed. IEEE floats are sign-magnitude, not twos-complement.
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